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Six earthquakes have struck Israel and neighbouring Lebanon and Jordan in recent months, with two coming last week alone. (...)

Since decriminalising homosexuality in 1988, Israel has passed several laws on the subject , including decisions to recognise same-sex marriages carried out abroad, and granting inheritance rights and other benefits held by married couples to gay partnerships. Last Sunday, to the outrage of the religious Right, the country's attorney general, Meni Mazuz, ruled that same-sex couples should be allowed to adopt children.



"Why do earthquakes happen? One of the reasons is the things to which the Knesset gives legitimacy, to sodomy," Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas party said during a parliamentary debate on earthquake preparedness.

"We are looking for earthly solutions, how to prevent them," he said. "I have another way to prevent earthquakes. The Gemara says that one of the reasons earthquakes happen - which the Knesset (parliament) legitimises - is homosexuality.

"God says you shake your genitals where you are not supposed to and I will shake my world in order to wake you up," he added.


Mr Benizri in 1999 caused controversy by saying homosexuals are mentally ill.

Quoted in the Israeli newspaper Maariv, he said he was "ready to fund the creation of special closed sections for them in psychiatric hospitals."

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Like, I've heard of conservative people, but this is just way too much...