Apparently, one unnamed U.S. senator has been going to televangelist whackjob Rick Joyner for advice. On one occasion, Joyner told the unnamed senator that Hurricane Katrina was God’s judgment for homosexuality, because Katrina came just before New Orleans was scheduled to have its annual gay "Southern Decadence" celebration.

A conservative, anti-gay pastor who has staged protests against New Orleans' Southern Decadence Festival, calling the predominantly gay event "perversion," has been arrested for allegedly masturbating in a park adjacent to a children's playground.

Thousands of tourists, gay and straight, are descending on New Orleans this weekend for the annual Southern Decadence Festival, which organizers says is "one of the gay world's major annual [...]