Florida GOP Rep. Joe Harding has been in the news a lot recently as the author of HB 1557, better known as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. The controversial legislation was passed by the Florida Senate last week.
Harding made headlines over the weekend for other reasons. His home in Ocala was hit by a tornado, according to Florida Politics.
Related: ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill is passed by Florida’s House
The tornado touched down upon Ocala on Saturday morning. Harding was not home but other family members were. The house suffered damage but thankfully no-one was hurt.
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The tornado wreaked further destruction on the homes of neighbors, with Harding estimating that seven out of ten homes in his neighborhood suffered “catastrophic damage.”
Of his own home’s encounter with the tornado, he said, “We are blessed. It could have been a lot worse.”
Local weather stations reported an EF-1 tornado passed through the area, with wind speeds of up to 110mph.
As some people are quick to blame bad weather on divine intervention, many on Twitter had thoughts.
Glad to see that some LGBTQ+ folks have honed their weather control powers.
— Michael P. Holtz (@MichaelPHoltz) March 14, 2022
Gay Tornado Cannons are more precise than Jewish Space Lasers. https://t.co/Y5MVCY94wR
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) March 14, 2022
the power of a blow job
— Gary Armstrong (@vanityman) March 14, 2022
— rcdlv 🇺🇦 (@rcdlv1) March 14, 2022
Thank you Jesus! pic.twitter.com/OX23kGGy5k
— Joe Carlin (@joe_nca) March 14, 2022
I’ll bet they saw a big beautiful rainbow after the storm
— chris ‘22 (boosted) 🇺🇦 (@ChrisConrady) March 14, 2022
Got ’em pic.twitter.com/HkeIqYs2U1
— Peter Saumur (@Stitched) March 14, 2022
Proves again that the ‘Gay Mafia’ can strike at any place, at any time…
— Mr. Ellipses… (@mlegions75) March 14, 2022
Geebus tryn to tell you sumptin.
— Marco the Maker (@Marco_The_Maker) March 14, 2022
— Sam Barnum (@sambarnum) March 14, 2022
When Mother Nature thinks you’re an asshole too! 😬👍🏽
— dteruel (@D_teruel) March 14, 2022
Related: Out senator breaks down during debate over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill
Aimed at schools, HB 1557 (the “Parental Rights in Education” bill) seeks to ban the discussion of LGBTQ topics mainly at the primary grade level. However, it will also limit discussion when “not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students”. It’s now heading toward Governor Ron DeSantis’ deck for signing. DeSantis has indicated he supports the legislation.
BaltoSteve
Not once did the thought ever go through his mind, “Is this actually God’s reaction to me using my interpretation of His Word to justify my own small minded bigotry?”
Chrisk
That’s because he’s a complete fraud. True for most of the other Evangelicals who regularity cherry pick their way through the babble.
Bengali
The idiot feels blessed because it didn’t do more damage. Me? I’m just really disappointed he wasn’t home and it didn’t do more damage. The Christian evangelical species isn’t even human. It’s made up of waste products.
I am happy that tornadoes can strike in the same place more than once.
MarcyMayer
BaltoSteve:
You really are preposterous, or just plain stupid.
Were you on something when you wrote that?
You sound as ignorant as the Bible -thumpers back in the ’80s who said that AIDS was God’s punishment for gay people!
TomG
I was thinking the same thing that his God was telling him to stop his foolishness be God doesn’t make junk.
BaltoSteve
Aw Marcy Mayer, Bless your tiny little heart! It’s actually so precious how you completely miss the mark every single time. Now sweetie, you should go and get yourself an ice cream cone. But you can’t get the sprinkles. Only winners get those.
Cam
Where are all the evangelical preachers who always claim that “The Gays” are responsible every time there is a light breeze or some rain? The guy sponsored the anti-LGBTQ hate bill and his house is destroyed right after it passes.
Sounds pretty obvious to me.
Phillip
Why is Pat Robertson strangely silent?
SamB
The sheer GLEE that people are feeling about a close call with death is really interesting to see. The far left really want some people to literally die, and they will hold a party. That’s pretty sad.
ZzBomb
Weird complaint considering the far right actually HAS killed people intentionally.
SamB
Zz: Which people?
Cam
Translation: The right wing, anti-LGBTQ troll account loves that Republicans hate Queer people and want to erase our existence from public life. But if anybody disagrees with that, it calls them big meanines and talks about how evil the left is.
Sweetie, the Mormon trolls tried that during prop 8 and it didn’t work, and it’s just sad that you are dragging out the same tired old outfit. It looked bad on your the, and it looks worse now that it’s even more out of style.
ZzBomb
We can start with the death of Heather Heyer. I can list numerous right wing extremists in the last decade alone who account for the murder of hundreds.
SamB
Zz: We’re talking politicians.
Cam
@SamB doesn’t mean of course, the Republican politicians who want to enact the death penalty for women who have abortions, or outlaw treating an ectopic pregnancy, which will kill a woman not allowed treatment.
James
GET LOST TROLL.
Clamzilla
Are you chumming for an invitation?
Den
There is literally no one here who wished death on anybody. Why do you right wingers lie so damn much? Why are you all so mean spirited? Why do you assume anybody is as soul-dead as you folks are?
DarkZephyr
I am glad nobody died, but I don’t feel bad for the destruction to his home. He has tried to hurt LGBT people for years, which I’m sure you’re just fine with. You NEVER complain about the things people like him do to us. Usually you just defend it.
SamB
Den: Really? Have you read some of the comments below?
DarkZephyr: I was simply making a point about the “tolerant left”
Bosch
Oh, THIS guy you’ll have sympathy for? Completely lacking in empathy ALL THE TIME, but you’ll defend your little closet-gay homophobe politician?
You really suck.
Sotzume
Comrade…how are things in Moscow?
SamB
Bosch: Did I say I empathize with him? I was just commenting on how these loving, tolerant people can become quite ruthless when something bad happens to someone they despise.
MarcyMayer
SamB:
Don’t be concerned or surprised. Average Americans now know what these people are: left-wing excrement.
Red Wave coming in November.
storm45701
@SamB : Harvey Milk? Jorge Diaz-Johnston? David Kato?
mailliw110
The dead ones.
ZzBomb
I don’t think “God” likes this bill or him for that matter. He should pray harder maybe?
sfhairy
Don’t eff with the gays! LOL. Too bad the house didn’t drop on him.
Kangol2
As the old folks used to say, God don’t like evil! Also, karma is a MF!
Mister P
Exactly! No one is wishing death. It is true that what comes around goes around though.
Polaro
I wish I believed in a benevolent god, or karma. I’ll take this win, however it came to be.
stonercharles
YEP!!!
Prax07
Tornado should’ve wiped out his entire family, that would’ve been a good thing.
MarcyMayer
Sadly, that’s what Bible-thumpers said about gays who died of AIDS. I guess you are as repugnant as those people were.
Cam
@MarcyMayer
The difference being, the people with AIDS weren’t attacking the Bible Thumpers. This guy is attacking Queer people. But see, you love that because you’re an anti-LGBTQ troll sent here to defend bigots.
Prax07
@samb Hell yes I’d love to see ALL the trump loving GOP kick the bucket. I’d throw a party and dance on their graves.
Mack
Hell I’ll chip in a couple of dollars to help pay for the celebration. And SamB, we would celebrate because it would be the end of STUPIDITY by a group of people like you.
Fahd
If someone’s house in Florida has to get messed up by a tornado, better his than the homes of the hardworking gay families whom he seeks to oppress for political gain.
How long before the decent people in Florida stand up for what is right? I can’t hold my breath much longer.
MISTERJETT
just goes to show: “God don’t like ugly”.
GrizzleyMichael
The idiots in New Orleans blame the gays for the flooding but the gay area of New Orleans was dry
tmball13
Am I alone this guy has sort of an ugly Aaron shock vibe? There’s seems to be a pattern in homophobes in politics…. I wonder how long before we see this guy and Madison shoving 20s down a strippers G string?
cubcmh
Pandemic (pestilence). Disney got flooded (deluge). Tornadoes (natural disaster). “Don’t Say Gay” bill (political persecution). It’s all very biblical.
What’s next? Locusts at the governor’s mansion (plague)? Dead fish on the Florida shores (seas dying)? Can’t wait to see! Who’s got the popcorn?
James
I DON’T FEEL SORRY FOR ATH CREEP AT ALL. TOO BAD HE DID NOT SEE HIS MAKER THAT DAY.
gjg64
If it had truly been a gay attack it would have been a twister.
Salacious1
Even though my little sister lives there (she wasn’t effected) I take this as a sign from God.
plazaro1
Karma has a terrible way of grabbing your sorry ass.
GayEGO
Oh my! An anti-gay GOP has been smacked down because GOD is angry with his
“Don’t say Gay bill”!
JTinToronto
Well Junior was gay after all. Maybe Junior got Big Daddy and The Spook to send a message to Florida.
M K
Love the statement “thankfully no one was hurt“… Really??? Is that what we’re actually thinking? I think not!
Mack
I take some “glee” when a right wing idiot home gets attacked by a disaster since they want to blame the LGBTQ community for all the ills of the world. We were blamed for 9/11 (Falwell), we were blamed for Katrina (Falwell), Sandy (Phelps), Northridge earthquake (Robertson) Bonnie (Robertson, who blamed the Gay Days at WDW and the storm veered from Florida and hit Hampton Rd Va where his 700 Club was based), and the list goes on. So SamB, STFU.
Sotzume
I hope all right wing Republicans die in the most horrific ways imaginable…them, their families, their friends, their supporters…what do you think of that Comrade Sam B.?
SamB
I think you need to to relax, all that anger isn’t healthy.
MarcyMayer
Now calm down and take 2mg of fentanyl. You’ll feel great.
jt1990
Sotzume perhaps the next tornado dumps a trailer full of armed Muslim refugees in the bedroom you share with your husband…
Cam
All three of the responses are three old screenames of the right wing troll. It’s so lazy it can’t even bother to try to hide it’s trolling behind new screenames. LOL
As always, your sad little trolling is weak.
jt1990
I see Detective Cam is hot on my trail! But he can’t figure out that I have only one screenname…but hey give him an A for effort!
MarcyMayer
jt1990:
Cam is just upset because there are members of the LGBTQ+ community who disagree with him.
He wants to run a tight ship like the Nazis and communists did in the 1930s.
Independent thought is strictly prohibited.
jt1990
MarcyMayer you mean everyone in the LGBTQ+ community don’t all have the same opinion? Imagine that, diversity within a group that strongly promotes diversity!
Now I wonder how long it will take Cam to show up and accuse us of being the same person?
BDAguy
Well played, karma; we’ll played. Does this close encounter with a tornado make him a friend of Dorothy?
FridM
That’s just Round 1 Joe Blow!!!
The real Bruce
Yea Cam! You nail ’em when needed. And @SamB and your “others” are starting to get really boring when you reveal yourself/selves. Your true colors can’t possibly be in rainbow hues. By the way, for those comments about wanting various people to die “horrible. painful deaths”. Be careful sweeties, karma can work both ways. Cheers and hugs.
SamB
Cam: what are you talking about?
Cam
@SamB
By all means, call every other person on this site “Cam”. Since they know they aren’t me, all you do is point out even more clearly that you’re a right wing, anti- LGBTQ troll sent here to try to lie and rewrite facts.
At least the Mormon trolls that used to come on here were somewhat educated. You’re just sad and boring at this.
mailliw110
Read the post again. He specifically named you. But you probably didn’t get the big words.
scotty
” it’s not nice to fool mother nature!”
Peanutella
It’s God’s punishment against the straights.
The Accidental Polemicist
Ironic how these people preach love and acceptance and speak out against hate, yet are literally the most hateful human beings and have no problem persecuting someone who disagrees with them.
Cam
Awwww, sweetie, you already posted nearly that exact thing under your other screename.
I LOVE it when the trolls are so enraged and terrible at their job that they can’t help but expose themselves.
mailliw110
Oh come on! They have more of a backbone than you give them credit for. Have faith in you dear leader.
Cam
Look at the rage and panic the right wing troll has when defending a rabid, anti-LGBTQ bigot. The sheer anger than anybody DARES not like the hate and bigotry of that person.