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In a continuing tactic used against anyone who goes against the religious right's attempts to harm and degrade the queer community -- which involves intentionally abusing the term "beliefs" -- they recently used Godwin's Law to slam the SF Board of Supervisors for condemning the Vatican's policy on same-sex adoptions. (Because the Vatican has absolutely no history of questionable sympathy for the Third Reich.) Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center for Hate, used the term Gleichschaltung to describe the Board of Supes.
It is not a stretch to compare the San Francisco board's actions to that of the Nazi Germany policy of Gleichschaltung, vilifying Jews as an auxiliary to and laying the groundwork for more repressive policies, including the final solution of extermination.
Yeah. Nice try. But no.
Our favorite part of the article, however, was the image used to accompany to the story on SFGate. Through it has since been removed, Greg Dewar grabbed it for us so that we could share it with you. This image of Chinese American supes, at right, was a bizarre choice when posting an article blaring a headline about them being called Nazis. Communists? Sure, because that's funny. But Nazis? Well, that's downright strange.
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Am I the only one who chuckled at the SFGate headline, because if reminded me of the "soup Nazi" from Seinfeld?
Opening up adoption to any qualified couple = genocide.
Totally.
I was a little pissed at the Gate for using a photo that targets Asian Americans as solely the evil folks.
Every time I think the church I grew up in could not possibly be any more batshit insane, they prove me wrong.
Amen!
Yup. Gotta love that this story is breaking at the same time that their tax dodging is making the news. Pathetic.
Wow, so Carmen Chu gay-married David Chiu and Eric Mar right before they fired up the ovens?
(This is really repulsive coming from a group that really sat by silently while real Nazis really terminated really persecuted people, by the by)
I did nazi this accusation coming
How dare the Catholic Church refer to the BOS as Nazis! That's the SFGate commenters' job!
Ranked #4 on the "Stuff White People Like" site... "comparing people to Hitler":
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/06/25/winner-4/
Odd picture to use considering none of these supes were even in office when this denunciation came down.
If you don't like San Francisco freedom and you can't handle the elbows from our politicians when you spend millions of dollars and speak evil about the gays, then get the fuck out of San Francisco.