Televangelist Pat Robertson stirred up controversy after claiming that the 2010 Haiti earthquake may have been God 's belated punishment on Haitians for allegedly having made a " pact with the Devil " to overthrow the French during the Haitian Revolution . Yehuda Levin , a Jewish religious leader , linked the earthquake to gays in the military via an alleged Talmudic teaching that homosexuality causes earthquakes . Levin posted a video onto YouTube the same day as 2011 Virginia earthquake in which he said , " The Talmud states , " You have shaken your male member in a place where it does n’t belong . I too , will shake the Earth . " He said that homosexuals should n't take it personally : " We do n’t hate homosexuals . I feel bad for homosexuals . It ’s a revolt against God and literally , there ’s hell to pay . " Chaplain John McTernan said that Hurricane Isaac ( 2012 ) , like Hurricane Katrina , was God 's punishment on homosexuals . Buster Wilson of the American Family Association concurred that statement
2010 Haiti earthquake
2010 Haiti earthquake
Divine retribution