Oh George Carey, you silly man.
Once the Archbishop of Canterbury, representative of a religion that claims to be about love, compassion and forgiveness but increasingly seems to be one of bitterness, hatred and desperation, George Carey addressed a rally at the Conservative Party Conference on 'gay marriage'.
George is against gay marriage. He's a religious man. He reckons his God wouldn't approve.
So bad is this situation according to George that being a Christian against gay marriage is like being a Jew in Nazi Germany.
Like being a Jew in Nazi Germany.
Look at that sentence again. Read it slowly. Run it through your mind a few times. Think about what being a Jew in Nazi Germany actually meant.
Yes, it truly is a statement of epic idiocy. Not to mention offensive as hell.
Being a Christian against gay marriage is NOTHING like being a Jew in Nazi Germany. No one has you walking the streets with yellow stars on your clothes, no one is stripping you of your humanity and fundamentally - and perhaps most important George - NO ONE IS ROUNDING YOU UP AND SENDING YOU OFF TO CAMPS TO BE MURDERED IN HUGE NUMBERS!
You small-minded Clerical nincompoop.
Being a Christian against gay marriage is probably a bit annoying. People think you're a bit odd perhaps. A bit old fashioned. We might think this posturing about marriage is a little funny coming from a religion whose sacred text appears to accept polygamy. But you are not Jews in Nazi Germany.
It says something about how ridiculously highly you see yourselves that you'd even dare to make the comparison. Christians against gay marriage are not being persecuted. They might be some mockery involved but that's nothing compared to what gay people have to put up with - still - as a result of Christian's and their anti-gay crusade. Gay people died in concentration camps (as did many good religious people) but gay people are still attacked, murdered, broken and beaten for being gay and Christians of a certain type: the ones who are comfortable with the Old Testament but find actually listening to Jesus and doing what he asks a bit of a struggle. Jesus asks a lot of people and it is easier to ignore him and get on with persecuting people who don't fit in that even try.
To steal Gandhi's quote: "I like your Christ but not so much your Christians."
So George. Please think just a little bit before you pontificate on this subject again. By all means carry on being a small-minded pick bits of the Bible I agree with, ignore the other bits, historically ignorant bigot but don't ever compare yourself to Jews in Nazi Germany.
It's a pathetic, offensive and just plain wrong comparison and I suspect you know it.
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