Dead Birds Are God's Punishment ?

A few days ago I posted about several mass bird deaths that happened recently in Arkansas, Louisiana and Sweden.   While it made good copy for many mass media outlets, it turns out that this is not really a rare occurrence in nature.   Scientists say it happens fairly commonly that there are mass deaths, and it doesn't happen just with birds.   But that explanation is not good enough for some people.

Some want to use these natural occurrences as fodder to push their own agendas.   One of these people is self-proclaimed prophet Cindy Jacobs.   She has decided that god killed the birds because he's mad that the U.S. government repealed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" as a policy for the military (although she doesn't really explain why he would take it out on the birds instead of humans -- I don't think the birds had anything to do with the policy or its repeal).   Here is what she had to say:

According to biblical principles, marriage is between a man and a woman, so we have to say “what happens when a nation makes a decision that’s against God’s principles?” Well, often what happens is that nature itself will begin to talk to us – for instance, violent storms, flooding. And you know there are actually some patterns that you can see where a nation will make a decision that is contrary to the principles of God and after that there is some kind of answer that God gives - being the God of creation, the God who created nature - but we don’t always understand what He’s saying.

Well, there’s something interesting we have been watching – let’s talk about this Arkansas pattern and say, could it be a pattern? We’re going to watch and see. But the blackbirds fell to the ground in Beebe, Arkansas. Well the Governor of Arkansas’ name is Beebe. And also, there was something put out of Arkansas called "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" by a former Governor, this was proposed, Bill Clinton. As so, could there be a connection between this passage [Hosea 4] and now that we’ve had the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, where people now legally in the United States have broken restraints with the Scripture because the Scripture says in Romans 1 that homosexuality is not allowed.

It could be because we have said it’s okay for people who commit these kinds of acts to be recognized in our military for the first time in our history, there is a potential that there is something that actually happened in the land where a hundred thousand drum fish died and also where these birds just fell out of the air.

How's that for tortured "thinking"?   And from a "prophet".   I do wonder why god included the Swedish birds though.