2012-11-01
Explanation
This comic takes the religious claim that natural disasters are God's punishment for homosexuality and follows it to its logical -- and absurd -- conclusion. It opens with a politician telling the president, "Mr. President, it's clear to me -- the reason we have natural disasters is that we let the homos practice their unnatural lifestyle." The president, taking this seriously, responds "My God... how come no one told me?" and forms the "C.I.Gay" -- an elite force of the gayest individuals in America, described as "a lightning rod for God's wrath" whose mission is to use that power for good.
The comic then shows a series of mock news headlines demonstrating the C.I.Gay in action: torrential rains ending a Midwest drought thanks to the mobilization of hundreds of rainbow RVs, a hurricane changing course to follow an armada of gay speedboats away from the Gulf Coast, an earthquake destroying a terrorist camp with a big gay zeppelin floating above, and "sodomy-induced lightning strikes" powering a new type of generator that makes electricity free and clean. In the final panel, God looks at a clock and says "Well that didn't go as planned," but then corrects himself: "Yes it did! I've been trying to give my chosen people free energy for millennia."
The comic brilliantly satirizes anti-gay religious rhetoric by accepting its premise and showing that if it were true, homosexuality would be an incredibly useful strategic resource. The final twist -- God revealing that gay people are actually His chosen people and He's been trying to help them give humanity free energy all along -- completely inverts the original homophobic argument. The votey panel shows the equation "E_total = U + K + E_sodomy," parodying physics energy equations by adding a "sodomy" energy term.