COVID-19 is God’s Punishment for Homosexuality, Republican Says

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Heerak Christian Kim, who sought the Republican Party nomination for Virginia’s 8th Congressional District, made the outlandish claim in a video posted to Twitter on August 29. “Many Christians believe that COVID-19 is punishment by God against #America because of legal protection of homosexuality which the Holy Bible requires that nations illegalize (sic) by national, state, local laws,” Kim wrote on Twitter.In the attached video — filmed from the Las Vegas Strip —  Kim talked about enjoying Las Vegas before abruptly pivoting to discuss how COVID-19 continues to hospitalize and kill people.“COVID hasn’t gone away,” he said. “I assure you, there are people dying from COVID every day, right now, even people who are fully COVID vaccinated, even for people who are double boosted.

Your magical kingdom can just evaporate overnight. So if you think COVID-19 has gone away, you’re just fooling yourself.”Kim claimed the reason for the pandemic is a divine punishment for homosexuality.

He then compared the current pandemic to the 10 plagues in the Book of Exodus. In the Biblical story, God sends 10 successive plagues to Egypt to penalize the Pharaoh for refusing to let Jewish slaves go free.“Christians are saying until homosexuality is illegalized (sic) in the United States of America, Americans can expect God to punish America, send plague after plague,” Kim ranted. “COVID-19 is only the first plague.

And there are more plagues coming.”To end COVID-19, Kim called for federal and state governments to criminalize homosexuality, saying gay people should be tried, convicted and executed.