https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/its-gods-view-not-mine-tamaki
Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki has defended saying that gays, sinners and murders are responsible for earthquakes, saying he actually meant anybody indulging in illicit sexual behaviour, adultery, child abuse and more.
“It’s about adultery, morality, it’s about any type of extra-sexual behaviour,” Tamaki has told Willie Jackson in an interview on RadioLive.
Quoting the Old Testament in a Destiny Church sermon on Sunday, before Monday morning’s 7.8 magnitude quake struck, killing two and leaving thousands stranded, Tamaki said “sexual perversion” and “homosexuality” was to blame for natural disasters.
Those comments were called just “plain loopy” by a rainbow community advocate, while New Zealand’s human rights commissioner Richard Tankersley branded them “disgusting.”