According to Pat Robertson (you know this is going to be good already), there is no evil in the universe so offensive to God as - you guessed it - Ellen Degeneres. So intolerable is Ellen to the Almighty, that he decided to destroy her hometown, New Orleans, for no other reason that she was born there.
Robertson also noted that the last time Degeneres hosted the Emmys, in 2001, the September 11 terrorism attacks took place shortly before the ceremony.
I'm sure this has been linked a billion times already tonight, but I couldn't resist.