(FaithWire) A writer for a popular LGBTQ website argued this week the novel coronavirus is God’s “punishment for conservative Christians.”
Mark Segal, a contributor for LGBTQ Nation, penned an article published Wednesday, “If HIV was God’s punishment for gays, then coronavirus is punishment for conservative Christians.”
The crux of his piece hinges on the old (though hardly widespread) fringe perspective among some that HIV was somehow God’s direct punishment for homosexuality.