USA — The power of gays and lesbians is apparently absolute, which may explain why religiously based political systems and groups tend to react so strongly to the presence of shameless GLBT practitioners. For some Christians, the power of homosexuality extends not merely to the domestic realm, by ruining perfectly good heterosexual marriages, but also to the financial realm, where it has helped bring Wall Street to its knees.Christian Civil League of Maine’s September 25th blog post by executive director Micheal Heath cautiously waffles that, “I am not saying I know whether this financial crisis is God’s judgment or not. It is not for me to know that definition.”

Nonetheless, “The Nation Will Right Itself If It Fixes Sex,” lists an assortment of sexual behaviors that Heath insists must change in order to make God “crack a smile” and lighten up a little on the USA. The list contains the usual suspects and alleged remedies, including an end to legal abortion and government funding of any non-profit that supports them, adding anti-same-sex marriage language to all state constitutions, ending all domestic partnership and civil union rights for same-sex couples, and removing laws that do not support private religious institutions and homeschools.

Not to be outdone, Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies posted similar opinions concerning the collapse of WaMu to the NationalReview.com site. In Krikorian’s opinion, minorities including gays, African-Americans, and Hispanics are to blame for the bank’s failures.

As On Top Magazine points out, Krikorian opines in his September 26th “Cause and Effect?” post that “I really thought this was a joke, but it’s not” and directs readers to “WaMu’s final press release, before it sank beneath the waves.”

The press release in question contains information about the company’s accomplishments in diversifying its work force. The results earned the bank a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, something sure to draw fire from those who oppose employing people whose sexual and romantic activities differ from that endorsed by the national mythos.

This latest blame shifting and scapegoating follows previous attempts, including holding gays responsible for Hurricane Katrina and the terrorist attacks of the World Trade Center and Pentagon on 9/11. In the wake of Katrina, internationally infamous founder of the Westboro Baptist Church went so far as to insist that “New Orleans, symbol of America, seen for what it is: a putrid, toxic, stinking cesspool of fag fecal matter.” He urged his followers to “Pray for more dead bodies floating on the fag-semen-rancid waters of New Orleans.”

Although many churches were damaged during the catastrophic hurricane, its French Quarter, well-known as a location for not only Mardi Gras excess but also GLBT and BDSM festivals, as well as a myriad of heterosexual debaucheries, remained largely undamaged.