Donald Wildmon is old now, although still the vital driving force in his organization. Others have taken over some of the duties -- like Bryan Fischer, the former pastor from Idaho who is the association's director of "issues analysis."
Fischer likes to hold forth about the evils of homosexuality. He claims that Adolph Hitler was "a homosexual," and that the Nazi Party was largely created by "homosexual thugs," which proves "the inherent pathologies of homosexuality."
Some "issues analysis," Mr. Fischer. And what is your evidence? Just the fact that one evil man and some of his henchmen may have been homosexual? That proves that all homosexuals are inherently sick?
Try this one then: I have it on good authority that Joseph Stalin, Idi Amin, Mao Zedung, and Pol Pot -- every one of them -- was a heterosexual. And guess what? So were the majority of the men that did their dirty work.
Collectively these men are responsible for more deaths of their own citizens than Hitler was. And they were all heterosexuals. Golly, gee!! So, this means that heterosexuals are all sick, huh?
Just following your own logical method, Mr. Fischer. Nothing personal, you know? I mean, I'm assuming you're one of them, too.
It's OK, if you are. Some of my best friends are heterosexual.
Ralph
PS: [A side question for Fischer: Why then were homosexuals second only to Jews as groups the Nazis tried to exterminate as if they were vermin? Why were gay organizations banned and gays in the Nazi party murdered? Oh, I know about internalized homophobia and persecution in others of what you're trying to condemn in yourself. But that's too subtle for the likes of Mr. Fischer. It's more likely he's just plain ignorant of history and lets his reason be driven by his prejudices. The problem is that the fundamentalist preachers listen to the likes of Fischer, then feed his poison to their flocks, then it hits the airways on talk radio, and influences voters.]
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How ironic that today the Associated Press released news of the death of the oldest known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps who had been sent there because he was gay. Rudolf Brazda of Berlin was 98. He was in the Buchenwald camp from 1942 until the liberation in 1945.
ReplyDeleteThe article also mentioned that Nazi Germany declared homosexuality an aberration that threatened the German race and convicted some 50,000 as criminals, many of whom were then sent to the concentration camps.