Christian Family Group Compares Homosexuality to Nazism

Posted by justinquincy , Jul, 2009 @ 9:09 am

Michael Jones over at Change.org brings us news of an alarming find at the Illinois Family Insitute that argues that homosexuality and the rise of Nazism are very similar. A staff member at the Family Insitute argues that the Christian Church must take the threat of the radical views of homosexuals head on. For more on the Illinois Family Insitute, Joe.My.God. provides links and a very succinct analysis of what the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a hate group. Here’s an excerpt of the note penned about homosexuality:

What is alarming about the account of the German Evangelical Church’s reprehensible failure [to fight nazism] is its similarity to the ongoing disheartening story of the contemporary American church’s failure to respond appropriately to the spread of radical, heretical, destructive views of homosexuality. Don’t we today see church leaders self-censoring out of fear of losing their positions or their church members? Don’t we see churches criticizing those who boldly confront the efforts of homosexual activists to propagandize children and undermine the church’s teaching on homosexuality? Aren’t the calls of the capitulating German Christians for “a more reasonable tone” and a commitment to “honor different views” exactly like the calls of today’s church to be tolerant and honor “diversity”? Don’t pastors justify their silence by claiming they fear losing their tax-exempt status (i.e. government assistance)? Don’t they rationalize inaction by claiming that speaking out will prevent them from saving souls?

What is even more reprehensible in America, however, is that church leaders don’t currently face loss of livelihood, imprisonment, exile, or death, as they did in Germany, and yet they remain silent.

What’s especially ironic about this kind of speech is the neo-Nazi movement in America and the Nazi’s of the day. Gays and lesbians were among those who were persecuted in the gas chambers and they are still persecuted worldwide today. They might want to do some historical analysis of their own.

via [Change.org]