"Who and what is next?"
Roberta Sklar, spokeswoman for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force responded to the President's support of a Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriage:
"If he endorses amendments such as this, which blatantly discriminates against a class of people, you would then have to wonder who and what is next."
Ms. Sklar's statement brings to mind another time in history. One of Hitler's first acts after taking office on January 30, 1933 was to ban homosexual organizations. From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:
" Soon after taking office on January 30, 1933, Hitler banned all homosexual and lesbian organizations. Brownshirted storm troopers raided the institutions and gathering places of homosexuals."
"On May 6,1933, Nazis ransacked the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin; four days later as part of large public burnings of books viewed as "un-German," thousands of books plundered from the Institute's library were thrown into a huge bonfire." more
The photo below shows the burning of homosexual books in Berlin.
"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." Heinrich Heine, nineteenth century German author.
"On Sunday evening, members of the Harvest Assembly of God Church in Penn Township sing songs as they burn books, videos and CDs that they have judged offensive to their God."
From "Playing with Fire" by James Carroll of the Boston Globe (3/9/04):
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