As Atrios wrote about this, apparently Jerry Falwell didn't hate gays quite enough to get the opening invocation spot at the GOP Convention. Instead they chose Sheri Dow, a woman WHO COMPARED GAYS TO HITLER. I am SO not making this up, or even vaguely twisting her words. This is so despicable, so vile, that it's difficult to even express the approriate level of outrage.
Ms. Dow made her wonderful comparison of gays to Hitler in a speech she gave about her horror at having viewed a magazine in which two gay men were married in the presence of their twin "daughters" (the added quotation marks are HERS). She rails for a bit about how these girls will likely be scarred for life by their horrible dads, then says this about the threat gay families pose to the "traditional" family (read the entire article via the link to get the full horrifying context):
Lining Up With Hitler or Against HimIronically, Ms. Dow may have a point. The GOP is increasingly embracing the kind of social policy that Hitler loved. Perhaps some enterprising journalist at the convention will ask Mr. Cheney how he feels about the opening invocation being given by a woman who compared his daughter to Hitler. Not to mention, why is Ms. Dow even willing to appear at a convention where Hitler's dad is the VP?
This escalating situation reminds me of a statement of a World War II journalist by the name of Dorothy Thompson who wrote for the Saturday Evening Post in Europe during the pre-World War II years when Hitler was building up his armies and starting to take ground. In an address she delivered in Toronto in 1941 she said this: ?Before this epic is over, every living human being will have chosen. Every living human being will have lined up with Hitler or against him. Every living human being either will have opposed this onslaught or supported it, for if he tries to make no choice that in itself will be a choice. If he takes no side, he is on Hitler?s side. If he does not act, that is an actfor Hitler.?
May I take the liberty of reading this statement again and changing just a few words, applying it to what I fear we face today? ?Before this era is over, every living human being will have chosen. Every living human being will have lined up in support of the family or against it. Every living human being will have either opposed the onslaught against the family or supported it, for if he tries to make no choice that in itself will be a choice. If we do not act in behalf of the family, that is itself an act of opposition to the family.?
At first it may seem a bit extreme to imply a comparison between the atrocities of Hitler and what is happening in terms of contemporary threats against the family but maybe not....
