XGW Digest: October 31, 2008

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1. 
   Alan S on November 2, 2008

   -Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, compares the legalization of gay marriage to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power.

   Did Brad Dacus sleep during his history classes? Gays were rounded up and put into concentration camps!

   From wikipedia.org:

   Shortly after the purge in 1934, a special division of the Gestapo was instituted to compile lists of gay individuals. In 1936, Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the SS, created the “Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion.”

   Gays were not initially treated in the same fashion as the Jews, however; Nazi Germany thought of German gay men as part of the “Master Race” and sought to force gay men into sexual and social conformity. Gay men who would or could not conform and feign a switch in sexual orientation were sent to concentration camps under the “Extermination Through Work” campaign.

   A study by Ruediger Lautmann found that 60% of gay men in concentration camps died compared to 41% for political prisoners and 35% for Jehovah’s Witnesses. The study also shows that survival rates for gay men were slightly higher for internees from the middle and upper classes and for married bisexual men and those with children.

   Sounds to me that Mr. Dacus has more in common with Hitler and the Nazi party than he would like to know or admit.

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2. 
   Chris on November 3, 2008

   A man from the Republican party came by my house last week and made similar arguments. I gave him a rebuttal on a few things he said, but that one was just so shocking and ridiculous I just had no idea what to tell him.

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3. 
   Alan S on November 3, 2008

   There is an article entitled:

   California’s Proposition 8
   The California Supreme Court Overruled the Voice of the People? Not Exactly

   by Lisa Jenkins

   same link seen below FYI

   https://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1031600/californias_proposition_8.html?cat=75

   I hope this is not out of protocol, but I just read it and it was very enlightning.

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