New Orleans’ official celebration of homosexual decadence interrupted by Katrina

I had heard that there was some kind of homosexual parade in New Orleans each year, and I had also heard that New Orleans held an annual event called “Southern Decadence” that Katrina had interrupted and that included a homosexual element. What I hadn’t realized, until I looked it up just now, is that Southern Decadence, which had been scheduled to run from August 31 to September 5, is itself a homosexual event. One website says: “The History of Southern Decadence, Gay New Orleans’ largest weekend.” Then there is the official website:

The Original & ONLY Official Southern Decadence Website
Southern Decadence XXXIV
in New Orleans
A Celebration of Gay Life, Music & Culture!
Wed., Aug. 31st—Mon., Sept 5th, 2005

The site includes an official welcome by the city of New Orleans:

City of New Orleans Welcomes
Southern Decadence Visitors

Due to the significance of Southern Decadence’s importance to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, and the millions of dollars in economic impact, the past three Mayors of the City of New Orleans have issued an official proclamation welcoming visitors to Southern Decadence, including Sidney Barthelomew, Marc H. Morial and C. Ray Nagin. All three mayors’ proclamations appeared first and exclusively in Ambush Mag, Official Southern Decadence Guide. The last two mayors’ proclamations also appeared first and exclusively on-line at SouthernDecadence.COM, the original and only Official Website of Southern Decadence. Additionally, in 2000, the New Orleans City Council issued the first proclamation recognizing the Official Southern Decadence Grand Marshals that year.

There follows a letter by Mayor Nagin saying, “We welcome you and know that you can anticipate great food, great music, and great times in New Orleans.”

Under the link for history of the event, it says:

No one ever knows exactly how many will show up, but recent years have seen the numbers grow into the tens of thousands. By around noon traffic will have to slow down or detour because Royal Street will be overflowing with marchers mostly costumed in drag, scare drag and traditional drag, and any other kind of rig they can conjure up from their imaginations. And don’t forget all those gourgeous men and women, most scantily clad. You will see the playful, the whimsical, the pretty, the ugly, the satirical, the witty, and the obscene. But whatever you see, it will always be totally decadent. It’s a scene from a technicolor Fellini film extemporaneously created. It’s a happening of habadashery fit for an LSD Alice In Wonderland. It’s a casting call for Lord of the Rings.

For the average liberal citizen of the modern world, the material I’ve just quoted has no particular significance and no conceivable relationship to the disaster of the last week. Yet one would have to be almost wilfully blind not to see such a relationship. I have previously written about the story of Sodom in Genesis 18 and 19, that “Sodom was not destroyed because of the sin of a few individuals, or the sin of many individuals. It was destroyed because the people of Sodom, as an organized community, embraced that sin.”

And here is New Orleans, year after year, officially embracing that sin, normalizing it, celebrating it, making money off it. An American city officially celebrating “decadence.” And the day before this week-long celebration of homosexual decadence was due to kick off, after it seemed that the hurricane had spared New Orleans the worst, the levee broke, initiating to the worst natural disaster in American history.

If someone were looking for evidence that the God of the Bible exists and wants to share his truth with man, there could not be a clearer message from God than this. Yet not only is the message ignored, but anyone in America’s public square who would point to it would be instantly denounced as a nut and bigot and told to shut up.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 05, 2005 07:35 AM | Send