My heart has hurt and wept this entire week for those that have suffered- and continue to do so- following the violent aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I believe that everything happens for a reason- and that Heaven always holds us... but it's sometimes hard to be at peace when this magnitude of a tragedy affects so many.

Being in the advertising business, I am on news web sites all day long. I have read article after article of kindness- of man's inhumanity to man- of chaos and pain... deep, deep pain... and I feel so much for these people- that no mere words could possibly convey the depth of my longing to help.

This morning, I read something that hurt me to my core. I realized it might happen... but I didn't honestly think that when so many people are still in such danger- fingers would already be pointed.

Labor Day weekend's huge gay and lesbian Southern Decadence party has- of course- been canceled. And that is what the conservatists are blaming the hurricane on. Oh- not the cancellation. The fact that New Orleans was open enough to have such a party. They are likening the city to a modern day Sodom- and saying that it was right and just for this punishment to be exacted upon it.

I will say that everyone is allowed to their opinions- because this is something I have always strongly believed. But my utter disgust and anger at that statement... Well. I have utter disgust and anger- but they are useless emotions, when I could much rather be praying for the survivors of the storm and flood.

Which is exactly what I would like to convey to those who would like to blame me and mine for the disaster.

Pray. Send good thoughts and love to the victims. Stop being so dispecably and disgustingly ignorant.