UPDATE: Who caused Hurricane Sandy, the Feds, the Lord, or the Dems?

UPDATE: The wing-nuttiness is worse than I thought. Read on for the explanation of why the Dems may be responsible for the hurricane.

Over at a website known as the Tea Party Command Center, they’re promoting the conspiracy theory that the federal government manipulated the weather patterns to create Hurricane Sandy so that the presidential election would be disrupted.

Meanwhile, a preacher claims the storm is God’s punishment for states that support same-sex marriage.

And a certain portion of Republicans who should know better seem to believe that the meteorological rape of the East Coast shore was God’s will.

The Tea Party site asks: “Couldn’t it very well be that our ‘October Surprise’ will be a man-made weather event that ‘knocks out power to millions’? We know that HAARP is busy! We’re warned of catastrophe. ‘They’ know!”

HAARP is a reference to a military research facility in Alaska that is a favorite of conspiracy theorists because it features about 200 tall antennas that rely upon high-frequency radio waves to research the ionosphere. In other words, it’s a scientific pursuit that is beyond the intelligence or comprehension of the conspiracy theorists.

It’s unclear to me why these right-wingers think that evil, conniving liberals in the Obama administration would want to damage a bunch of Blue States.

Meanwhile, chaplain John McTernan said that Sandy is further proof that “God is systematically destroying America” in retaliation of the nation’s “homosexual agenda.” 

He blames gays, lesbians, the Muslim Brotherhood, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Obama is 100 percent behind the Muslim Brotherhood which has vowed to destroy Israel and take Jerusalem. Both candidates are pro-homosexual and are behind the homosexual agenda. America is under political judgment…” McTernan wrote on his blog.

And then we have mainstream Republicans distributing online a U.S. map showing an outdated possible path for Sandy with this text emblazoned across it: “Democrats voted against God three times. God may have had the last word on that.”

I’m not sure what that means but it sounds fairly conspiratorial, perhaps in a tongue-in-cheek way.

UPDATE: The reference to the Democrats is apparently an assertion by the Religious Right that the Dems voted against God three times at their national convention.
This poster demonstrates how ridiculous fringe politics can become (Lord help us):