Conservative Activist: Gays Coming For Christians Like ‘What Hitler Was Doing’
Ah, it’s the old Hitler meme again.
Adam McManus, a radio host and organizer of the Freedom 2015 Religious Conference, has warned that Christians were being silent about same-sex marriage in the same way that Germans had been silent about the Holocaust.
During a recent interview, McManus told KDNL host Jamie Allman that “there is a real threat to all of our freedom, to all of our liberty.”
“What’s going to happen when a homosexual couple comes to one of your viewer’s churches and asks for their pastor to marry them and their pastor says no, it’s against the Bible?” he asked. “Believe me, he is going to be in serious trouble. He might be fined, he might be penalized, he might be even imprisoned.”
“What’s going to happen when a homosexual couple comes to one of your viewer’s churches and asks for their pastor to marry them and their pastor says no, it’s against the Bible?” he asked. “Believe me, he is going to be in serious trouble. He might be fined, he might be penalized, he might be even imprisoned.”
“I think of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the words he had to say about the Germans,” McManus continued, “and who Hitler was targeting, step by step by step: the infirmed, the elderly, the mentally challenged and ultimately the Jews in the Final Solution.”
McManus may have the origin of this famous quote wrong. It is believed that it was Bonhoeffer’s friend, the pastor Martin Niemoller, who originated the words:
Click here for reuse options!First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the socialists
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist.
Then they came for Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
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21 responses to Conservative Activist: Gays Coming For Christians Like ‘What Hitler Was Doing’
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Maxx44 November 9th, 2015 at 10:53
“Paranoia strikes deep.
Into your life it will creep.”
alpacadaddy November 9th, 2015 at 12:55
it starts when you’re always afraid,
step outta line, the [Enter Current Bogeyman] comes,
and takes you away!
Roctuna November 9th, 2015 at 11:00
He’s afraid gays would treat christians as poorly as christians like him wish they could treat gays.
arc99 November 9th, 2015 at 11:12
I was born in 1952. Ever since I can remember, modern conservatism has had as its cornerstone, a requirement that there must be some kind of fear or bogeyman.
Paranoia is their stock in trade. Communism served that purpose well for several decades. There was a commie lurking on every street corner, just waiting to steal your freedom. When the VietNam war ended, Nike and Microsoft built manufacturing centers there. Nixon went to China and took our jobs with him. Red State America’s favorite retailer has an inventory of products, most of which are manufactured in a communist country. So communism as a bogeyman is rather passe. Kind of hard to rail against the commies as you rush to WalMart to buy the latest stuff the commies have exported to us.
So right wingers look for other scapegoats like Muslims and gay people.
It is the same ignorant sh*t. And just like when I was a child who finally realized that 24/7/365 paranoia does not accomplish anything, it is long past time to put aside the childish ways of fear as a political tool.
ExPFCWintergreen November 9th, 2015 at 11:15
“The gays are coming, and I wish other Christians wouldn’t be silent about it. I wish they’d talk about it more. A lot more. I know I sure like talking about it.”
Suzanne McFly November 9th, 2015 at 11:31
Its odd how these racists are claiming others are the real racists. It would be funny if everyone was in on the joke, but I don’t get it.
tracey marie November 9th, 2015 at 11:37
Stop whining and projecting, you are making yourself and xtians looks foolish and paranoid.
mistlesuede November 9th, 2015 at 11:46
It must be hell going through life so afraid of everyone that isn’t the same as you. Everyone is out to get you somehow or other. How does one live like this? Try love and acceptance of others and treating them equally. You might find the peace that your bible and religion is not giving you.
MyDogsAreSmarterThanYou November 9th, 2015 at 11:51
Yup, the Nazis went after the same people conservatives don’t give two craps about in the first place.
Budda November 9th, 2015 at 11:54
If stupidity was painful this guy would be screaming in agony.
whatthe46 November 9th, 2015 at 13:02
I love that line.
Mobi November 9th, 2015 at 16:49
Sounds like he already is screaming in agony on the inside, and it’s now becoming a new virus on the outside.
Bunya November 9th, 2015 at 14:04
That’s right! If the fine, upstanding Christians don’t stand up against gay marriage, the government will turn the White House over to gays who will, in turn, incarcerate all straight people and put them in concentration camps they’re going to erect.
OMG! The Christians are right! Gay marriage IS just like Hitler!
Chris November 9th, 2015 at 20:58
Never mind that before gay marriage, clerics refused to marry people all the time with no repercussions to the clerics.
And never mind that after gay marriage, this has not changed. I wouldn’t want to spoil a good “Christian as victim of atheist society” story, would you?
dzerres November 9th, 2015 at 21:03
Why do christians have to lie about everything? This guy KNOWS that churches and preachers are not required to marry anyone, gay or straight, if they don’t want to. Liar. Worse this guys is a CHRISTIAN LIAR.
Lyndia November 9th, 2015 at 21:54
Some Christians lie because that is what they do, LIE.
Red Mann November 10th, 2015 at 00:16
It was on the tablet Moses dropped: “Thou shalt lie frequently for the Lord thy God.”
bpollen November 10th, 2015 at 04:36
I’ve got these 15 Commandments — CRASH — these 10 Commandments…
Lyndia November 9th, 2015 at 21:57
How in the hell, does he know that? I mean, does he have some type of esp?
bpollen November 10th, 2015 at 04:35
This must be what he’s talking about…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmYIo7bcUw
rg9rts November 10th, 2015 at 05:41
And someone will make him marry gay