"Southern Decadence" was set for New Orleans soon. It was to be a yearly hoopla celebrating practicing homosexuality as a legitimate, giddy lifestyle.

Thousands upon thousands were going to crawl all over New Orleans "to celebrate their sexuality," according to Methodist lay preacher Gary Hopkins of Ekklesia.co.uk.

In other words, Sodom and Gomorrah were to be reenacted in broad daylight — and into the night haunts as well. It would be one high ol’ time of it in the southern scape.

Police would be forced to look the other way or fill the jails to overflowing. Decent citizens would cover their eyes to play hide-and-seek against the all-inclusive wickedness. Little children would be taken on hopefully safe excursions in order to escape the blatant evil parading their avenues. Businesses would money-shoot off the charts from homosexuals’ open wallets in festive abandon.

Then came along Katrina.

Now New Orleans is under water, bathing in sewage and devastation rather than providing downtown fountains for homosexual capers aplenty.

All of this has prompted Repent America to conclude that the biblical God had a heavy hand in the Katrina swing along. It’s an "‘act of God,’" they claim to media. United States-based, Repent America goes to the streets to preach repentance of sin, conversion to Christ as personal Savior, and thereby living the holy lifestyle according to the biblical message.

As far as Repent America is concerned, divine judgment has come upon a metropolis that was bent on making its environs open to hell’s demons. Therefore, God intervened. There will be no "Southern Decadence" skipping the light fantastic. Over and out. Done. Gone. Under water.

While emergency workers seek out the dead and trapped, Repent America preaches the gospel according to Jesus when He opened His public ministry with one word: "Repent." So it was with Peter on the Day of Pentecost while the Upper Room pray-ers were overcome with the Holy Spirit’s baptism. Preacher Peter opened his message in the Jerusalem streets with one word: "Repent."

Repent America brings the nation back to Jesus’ opening call and Peter’s declaration as this evangelical organization continues to warn souls of personal accounting at the Judgment Seat of Christ. They do so without apology. They do so at the chagrin of theological liberals. They do so at the mockery of lesbians and homosexuals who claim to be "Christian." Yet they do so, being accountable for their mission only to their biblical God.

Now the Louisiana governor has gone to the media to ask for prayers for the state and particularly for New Orleans. How very interesting that New Orleans, extending the welcome mat to sodomites, is now in need of prayer from the very God the perverts disdain.

It’s that way when disaster strikes. As long as skies are clear and people’s bellies are full, God can go hang. But when calamity hits hard across America’s face, statesmen, governors, mayors and news people call on God. What must God think about that kind of hypocrisy?

Repent America will not play the hypocrisy game but will keep to one mode for lifestyle — that of the biblical mandate. It is this, in both Old and New Testaments: "Be holy, even as I am holy." Those words are from the Creator.

One wonders what "Southern Decadence" organizers are pondering today and tomorrow and the next morrow. Will any moral sense break through their din? Only God knows. Nevertheless, Repent America will be there to warn them, beseech them to turn from their wicked ways, and live the holy life under God.

Repent America’s director, Michael Marcavage, said that "‘this act of God destroyed a wicked city. New Orleans was a city that opened its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. May it never be the same.

"’We must not forget that the citizens of New Orleans tolerated and welcomed the wickedness in their city for so long.’"

Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Email: joseph_swank@yahoo.com