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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 12:58 PM Apr 2013

Bryan Fischer: ‘Homofascists’ will treat Christians like Jews in the Holocaust



By David Edwards
Friday, April 12, 2013 10:11 EDT

The director of issues analysis of the fundamentalist American Family Association (AFA) on Thursday warned that “homofascists” were going to make anti-LGBT Christians wear badges like Jews had to wear during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.

During his Focal Point radio show, AFA’s Bryan Fischer explained that he was outraged that Dr. Ben Carson decided to drop out as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine after his comments linking same sex marriage to bestiality.

“If you don’t believe in sodomy-based marriage, you’re not prepared to endorse and sanction sodomy-based marriage, you have no place in this institution,” Fischer complained. “So we’re getting to the point — I don’t know what the emblem would be — remember when the Jews in Nazi Germany, they had to wear a yellow Star of David on their sleeve? I mean, we’re getting to the point now, that’s what they’re going to make us do.”

“I don’t know what the symbol would be, I’d have to think about that,” he continued. “We’re getting to the point where these homofascists are going to force us to wear on our sleeves some kind of identifying marker so people will know who the racists and the homophobes and the bigots are, and can stay away from them.”

In fact, men arrested for homosexuality in Nazi Germany were forced to wear inverted pink triangles as identifying badges in labor and concentration camps.

“As part of the Nazis’ attempt to purify German society and propagate an ‘Aryan master race,’ they condemned homosexuals as ‘socially aberrant,’” according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Many survivors have testified that men with pink triangles were often treated particularly severely by guards and inmates alike because of widespread biases against homosexuals.”

Watch this video from AFA’s Focal Point, broadcast April 11, 2013.



http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/12/bryan-fischer-homofascists-will-treat-christians-like-jews-in-the-holocaust/
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Bryan Fischer: ‘Homofascists’ will treat Christians like Jews in the Holocaust (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2013 OP
The sybol would be a giant dick - right on their foreheads. bunnies Apr 2013 #1
This is so offensive to me. Behind the Aegis Apr 2013 #2
Untreated mental illness is the shame of this country. Ikonoklast Apr 2013 #3
Sick man. eom City Lights Apr 2013 #4
Sounds great! How about a brown asterisk? dogknob Apr 2013 #5
Utter nonsense. But if it weren't... Lizzie Poppet Apr 2013 #6
My dad survived the Holocaust nadinbrzezinski Apr 2013 #7
they are good at rationaling their bigotry. TeamPooka Apr 2013 #8

Behind the Aegis

(53,921 posts)
2. This is so offensive to me.
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 02:36 PM
Apr 2013

I am offended as a Jew and a gay man! If anything, this is simply projection on the part of the AFA. This is what they want to do to US!

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
3. Untreated mental illness is the shame of this country.
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 02:42 PM
Apr 2013

People like Mr. Fischer are in desperate need of treatment.

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
6. Utter nonsense. But if it weren't...
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 03:31 PM
Apr 2013

...then turnabout's fair play. It's not like gays weren't victims of the Holocaust, too.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
7. My dad survived the Holocaust
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 03:34 PM
Apr 2013

Fifty of my relatives did not.. I hope, not counting on it, this guy someday realizes how offensive this is.

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