Religious right calls on US government to regulate the ACLU

The religious right wants Congress to pass laws curtailing the activities of specific civil rights groups like the ACLU.

Time to state the obvious: The religious right is filled with Nazis. You don't like the term "Nazi?" Well too bad. One good thing I got out of the Holocaust Museum this past weekend was an amazing lesson in how quickly Hitler consolidated power his first six months in office by banning the opposition and slowly (or quickly) whittling away at the rights of Germany's citizens in an effort to create a murderous totalitarian regime.

Book burning is Nazi. Demonizing minorities is Nazi. Using the organs of the state to attack civil rights organizations is Nazi. Having the state regulate the intimate relations of its citizens is Nazi. You don't like the comparison? Too bad. Some of us have learned the lessons of history and don't plan on repeating them again. Others are so blinded by history that they refuse to dedicate themsleves to truly ensuring it never happens again.

You can't stop history from repeating itself if you think what happened in Germany is so unique and so diabolical that nothing in the future could ever merit comparison. That would mean the Nazis were an aberattion, a fluke, a one-time thing, and that no one would even need to learn the lessons of history since "obviously" those tragedies will never be repeated. It's a dangerous lesson to teach.

It's sad that many of the very groups dedicated to keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive don't even understand the damage they're doing to its legacy by insisting that it could never happen again while asking us to ensure that it never does.