A conservative preacher from Tennessee thinks the coronavirus is a response to same-sex marriage. Last week, Perry Stone told his supporters at his church in Cleveland that the global pandemic – which has killed over 17,000 and infected 390,000 people worldwide (as of writing) – is a “reckoning” from God for marriage equality and abortion.
According to Right Wing Watch, Stone said: “If this is a moment of reckoning, and I know it is, I know what I heard, I did not make that up.