Republican Who Claims Holocaust Was Orchestrated by Gay Nazis Wins Enough Support for Massachusetts

[TexasTowelie]

Republican Who Claims Holocaust Was Orchestrated by Gay Nazis Wins Enough Support for Massachusetts Governor Primary


The author of a book claiming that the Holocaust was orchestrated by gay men who ran the Nazi party will appear on a Massachusetts gubernatorial primary ballot later this year after garnering enough support at the Republican party’s state convention last week. Scott Lively will now face off with incumbent governor Charlie Baker in September’s primary.

Lively wrote a 1995 book, titled The Pink Swastika, in which he asserted that the Nazi party that took power in Germany in the 1930s was controlled by “militaristic” homosexuals who inspired the murder of about 6 million European Jews. The Holocaust also saw the persecution of a number of other groups, including homosexuals. Lively’s claims have been roundly debunked by historians.

But the controversy surrounding Lively does not end there. He is the founder of an anti-LGBT group, Abiding Truth Ministries, which is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He is also staunchly anti-abortion. On his campaign website, Lively stated that “abortion is the intentional killing of a living human being and should be criminalized.”

He added that he “would work to ensure that it carried a serious penalty for anyone who deliberately and with premeditation kills an unborn child.”

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[RKP5637]

1. FFS!!!! n/t

[left-of-center2012]

2. I guess he's referring to Ernst Rohm

Ernst Röhm was a German military officer and an early member of the Nazi Party.
As one of the members of its predecessor, the German Workers' Party, he was a close friend and early ally of Adolf Hitler and a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung, -- SA, "Storm Battalion", the Nazi Party's militia,
and later was its commander.

Under Röhm, the ... SA intimidation contributed to the rise of the Nazis ... but its reputation for street violence and heavy drinking was a hindrance,
as was the open homosexuality of Röhm and other SA leaders such as his deputy Edmund Heines.

https://tinyurl.com/k8eg6ew

[thucythucy]

3. Just to be clear, Rohm was executed by Hitler in 1934,

along with most of his associates during the infamous "Night of the Long Knives," so blaming him for the Holocaust is historically absurd.

[left-of-center2012]

4. Correct

He was not alive when it happened.
There's a good documentary series on Netflix about Hitler and his associates.
Antisemitism was there from the beginning, as was Ernst Röhm.

So I don't know that he can be held blameless.

[thucythucy]

5. I'm not holding him "blameless"

since he helped Hitler rise to power. So he's at least partly responsible for all that followed.

I'm just objecting to using him to contend that the Holocaust was some sort of "gay plot" as a fairly transparent attempt to smear the LGBT community today. Aside from being blatantly bigoted, the effort is also historically way off base.