From Nashville Scene (3/25/09) - Jeff Woods:
State representative speaks for God.
An unidentified advocate for children's issues went on a blog last week to report on an alien encounter in Nashville. She said Rep. Tony Shipley, R-Kingsport, told her (A) that God might drop entire states, apparently starting with California, into the ocean as punishment for letting gays adopt children and (2) God-fearing Christians might secede from the union and start shooting minié balls at people if gays keep trying to adopt babies.
The Scene was able to contact the anonymous advocate, who said she can't give her name for fear of losing her job.
"If I take this any more public than I already just posted on the blog, I could literally be fired," she told us. "I was just shocked because Rep. Shipley had never met me before. I thought, 'How do you know I'm not gay? How do you know I don't have a gay kid?' "
Asked about all this, Shipley explained that the advocate generally reported their conversation correctly. But he wished to clarify that he was not ranting and raving at the time, as some readers might have assumed. Instead, Shipley said he was perfectly reasonable and calm as he warned God might drop Tennessee into the sea for the sins of its people.
"The way it was presented is a little bit out of context. But the fact of the matter is that being of that way of thinking, a conservative Christian, I do believe that God punishes us for things that are against his word. I believe that with all my heart. I did tell her, and this is in reference to the calamity of Sodom and Gomorrah, the parting of the seas and all those things that happened in the Bible, that if we misbehave as a people God could place calamity on us. I did say, you know, God could punish California or anybody else, he could slide it off into the sea, if it's not doing things that comply with God's word. It was a biblical reference."
Shipley added that he objects to the advocate's blog post because "it made me appear to be ignorant and I'm not, not even close to ignorant."
State representative speaks for God.
An unidentified advocate for children's issues went on a blog last week to report on an alien encounter in Nashville. She said Rep. Tony Shipley, R-Kingsport, told her (A) that God might drop entire states, apparently starting with California, into the ocean as punishment for letting gays adopt children and (2) God-fearing Christians might secede from the union and start shooting minié balls at people if gays keep trying to adopt babies.
The Scene was able to contact the anonymous advocate, who said she can't give her name for fear of losing her job.
"If I take this any more public than I already just posted on the blog, I could literally be fired," she told us. "I was just shocked because Rep. Shipley had never met me before. I thought, 'How do you know I'm not gay? How do you know I don't have a gay kid?' "
Asked about all this, Shipley explained that the advocate generally reported their conversation correctly. But he wished to clarify that he was not ranting and raving at the time, as some readers might have assumed. Instead, Shipley said he was perfectly reasonable and calm as he warned God might drop Tennessee into the sea for the sins of its people.
"The way it was presented is a little bit out of context. But the fact of the matter is that being of that way of thinking, a conservative Christian, I do believe that God punishes us for things that are against his word. I believe that with all my heart. I did tell her, and this is in reference to the calamity of Sodom and Gomorrah, the parting of the seas and all those things that happened in the Bible, that if we misbehave as a people God could place calamity on us. I did say, you know, God could punish California or anybody else, he could slide it off into the sea, if it's not doing things that comply with God's word. It was a biblical reference."
Shipley added that he objects to the advocate's blog post because "it made me appear to be ignorant and I'm not, not even close to ignorant."
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