Did the earth move for you, Kevin?

It's worth repeating this. The world is full of religious nutters, and they aren't all Muslims. Also, they aren't always being vile to women. Sometimes they're being vile to gay people instead.

Here on the BBC news, for instance, is Shlomo Benizri of the Israeli Shas party (BBC news), which may or may not be an acronym (Stop Homoerotic Arse Shenanigans? Secretly Hankering After Sodomy?).

According to the BBC, he called on lawmakers to stop "passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes".

Earthquakes? I once recall a Chris Morris characters denouncing gays in the military because they showed up on the enemy radar, but that was a joke.

Of course. It's the old divine vengeance. Israel's passed some fairly basic gay rights legislation, and the Orthodox (to think that in everyday parlance, orthodox means mainstream) are getting all up themselves over it. As it were.

Apparently the recent earthquakes in Israel were Jehovah's comment on the subject. All I can say is, he's not the vengeance machine he used to be. In the olden days entire cities came tumbling down. Now he just shakes the ground a bit. Oh yes, and makes a few puddles round Tewkesbury.

Of course, he knows where to come down hard. Pakistan. New Orleans. Sri Lanka. All the unreligious places.

There's a picture of a Shas demo on the BBC page, with one of their banners on it. Don't sodomize Jerusalem, it says. You know, before I saw that it hadn't even occurred to me to try, but now I think I might take some time off.

And did you spot the clue in the text? That's right, sodomize. With a Z. The American spelling. Because who are the real problem people in Israel? Messaianic Zionist Americans.

Which is great for all the other American Jews. Just imagine, being in a religion where all the firebreathing young militants are ideologically obliged to go and live somewhere else. What's that, God? You want all the true Christians to go and make Antarctica safe for Jesus? I'll let them know right away.

So as I said, it's not all Muslims. But just so they don't feel left out, here's something on Muslim homophobia from the Times, courtesy of the Grand Tufti. In this age of the War on Terror, it's worth making the point that the vast majority of victims of Islam are other Muslims.