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Family radio is a group of Christian fundamentalists who are convinced that the world will end this May 21st. What the article doesn’t mention is that Harold Camping is a bigoted zealot homophobe who says that Gay Pride and the gay civil rights movement is a sign from God, and that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed due to homosexuality. (see this PDF, warning written by the Homophobe Christian bigot, Harold Camping.)

What will the followers do in two weeks after their Doom date passes? What happens when the next Gay Pride parade goes on as planned?

On the other hand, maybe it is the Apocalypse since that’s when Cain is announcing.

Now they are in Orlando, in a rented house, passing out tracts and reading the Bible. Their daughter is 2 years old, and their second child is due in June. Joel says they’re spending the last of their savings. They don’t see a need for one more dollar.

“You know, you think about retirement and stuff like that,” he says. “What’s the point of having some money just sitting there?”

“We budgeted everything so that, on May 21, we won’t have anything left,” Adrienne adds.

Nothing, except for the fervent hope that all of them will be raptured.

“There Is No Plan B”

Camping is not the first person to fix a date for the end of the world. There have been dozens of such prophets, and so far, they’ve all been wrong.

Camping himself, has had to do some recalculation. He first predicted the end would come Sept. 6, 1994. He now explains that he had not completed his biblical research.

“For example, I at that time had not gone through the book of Jeremiah,” he explains, “which is a big book in the Bible that has a whole lot to say about the end of the world.”

So he’s not planning for May 22?

“Absolutely not,” Camping says. “It is going to happen, There is no Plan B.”