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Rabbi Yehuda Levin Blames Washington, DC Earthquake On Gay Marriage (VIDEO)


First Posted: 08/24/11 05:40 PM ET Updated: 10/24/11 06:12 AM ET

A New York rabbi claims gay marriage and the earthquake that shook the East Coast are directly connected.

In a video uploaded to YouTube, Levin says gay rights legislation, like the gay marriage law passed in New York, are responsible for earthquakes, like the one that struck Washington, D.C. Tuesday.

“The Talmud states, 'You have shaken your male member in a place where it doesn't belong. I too, will shake the Earth,'” Levin says.

He also notes that he does not dislike gay people.

"We don't hate homosexuals," he says. "I feel bad for homosexuals. It's a revolt against God and literally, there's hell to pay."

On Top Magazine reports that Joseph Farah, editor of WorldNetDaily.com, expressed similar sentiments.

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A New York rabbi claims gay marriage and the earthquake that shook the East Coast are directly connected. In a video uploaded to YouTube, Levin says gay rights legislation, like the gay marriage la...
A New York rabbi claims gay marriage and the earthquake that shook the East Coast are directly connected. In a video uploaded to YouTube, Levin says gay rights legislation, like the gay marriage la...
A New York rabbi claims gay marriage and the earthquake that shook the East Coast are directly connected. In a video uploaded to YouTube, Levin says gay rights legislation, like the gay marriage la...
A New York rabbi claims gay marriage and the earthquake that shook the East Coast are directly connected. In a video uploaded to YouTube, Levin says gay rights legislation, like the gay marriage la...
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joeyfoto
“Écraser l'infamie!”
06:37 PM on 09/10/2011
I had comment on this sad expression of cultural myopia earlier, but as I went to close the page I thought of a something that stopped me in mid-click.

It Gay marriage caused "G-d" to override the normal friction on tectonic plates, what enraged "G-d to the point where he interrupted normal patterns of civilized behavior to create the Holocaust? What great sins had Jewish children committed to deserve that fate?

What mental process does this rebbe use, to so totally replace logic?
12:14 PM on 09/25/2011
There is no mental process. Religion is a mental illness. We need to ban it for the sake of humanity or it will become extinct like the dinosaurs.
11:09 AM on 08/29/2011
What does he blame the more powerful Charleston, SC earthquake of 1886 on...the abolishment of slavery?
12:06 AM on 08/29/2011
Isn't it sacrilegious to use gods name in vain? Im pretty sure dragging his reputation through the mud in order to add credibility to your own hateful beliefs, not to mention speaking for him as though you know his mind, qualifies.
10:12 AM on 08/28/2011
I didn't know that all the gays lived on the east coast. What about the ones on the west coast? So God is going to punish all of us for gays .. Geee I don't know about this God guy
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BoFo
Like, you talkin' to me?
04:00 PM on 08/27/2011
People who live in ridiculous-looking, ill-fitting headgear shouldn't throw stones.
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Ioan Lightoller
Proud Gay Pagan Man, Living Happily With Husband
11:47 PM on 08/27/2011
LMAO, but fanning and faving ya for truth!
12:20 PM on 08/27/2011
God told me that Hurricane Irene was caused by a Gay Hating Rabbi in NYC.
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Homer Zerrudo
Happy (or trying for it)..
06:42 AM on 08/27/2011
Rabbi Levin blaming gay marriage for the earthquake is really understandable. After all, who's he going to blame -

God? (No one blames the Boss)
Nazis? (Too ludicrous)
Militant Islamic terrorist groups?(Too formidable to antagonize)
Gays? (Hmm, easy targets, do not engage in vendetta nor issue fatwas)

Thus did the Rabbi of the Unfortunate Hat arrive at a decision.
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jfbuf
I guess people aren't corporations
10:54 PM on 08/26/2011
I blame the end of the world on religion
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ragwad
08:20 PM on 08/26/2011
I thinks its God punishing us for refusing to raise taxes and pay our debts.
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jfbuf
I guess people aren't corporations
10:55 PM on 08/26/2011
I think he will keep sending disasters at us until we raise taxes on the rich
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Rideropurplesage
Et lux in tenebres lucet
05:51 PM on 08/26/2011
It was only frizzhead shaking his member one more time to his condi rice porn on the other side of the globe.
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Reiner-von-Sinn
Fol de rol de rolly O
12:44 PM on 08/26/2011
Why does god hate Mineral, Virginia?
10:27 AM on 08/29/2011
Because my ex husband lives there. That's only a guess though. :)
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Reiner-von-Sinn
Fol de rol de rolly O
12:35 PM on 08/26/2011
Another zealot creating a god in his image; one reacting to local politics.

Sheeesh!
10:41 AM on 08/26/2011
What is this guy's background? Is he really a rabbi? Where are his credentials? (not on Wikipedia)

As a rabbi, he would be guilty of misrepresenting Judaism, but the use of "rabbi" may be false.

A hat and beard to not a rabbi make.
GuiltyUndertaker
no se mata la justicia!
12:54 PM on 08/26/2011
He's probably like Rabbi Chaim Bamel of Kokomo, Indiana, who went on the TV show "What's My Perversion?" (from the Woody Allen Film "Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask") Rabbi Bamel wanted to be tied up and flogged by a beautiful woman with his wife kneeling next to him eating pork.

"Naughty, naughty rabbi. Don't ever do that again."
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Ioan Lightoller
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11:51 PM on 08/27/2011
LMAO! I really needed a good laugh this evening. Thank you!!
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Vila M Patel
Life is an unrelenting comedy, therein lies the tr
09:24 AM on 08/26/2011
So God cares about the gay marriage thing but not about a young Hasidic Jew being slaughtered! He would send an earthquake to punish gays and their supporters, and ignore murder..really? Really?
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timx2
walk a mile...
12:01 PM on 08/26/2011
He blamed that on us too...well actually on other Jews for not fighting harder against same sex marriage, but none the less it's our fault..who knew we had such power, yet we still can't get married. I wonder how the drought here in Texas is our fault