This may make some folks angry, but its the truth.

I have been relatively quiet on the CA prop 8 and the AZ prop 102 protests. I expressed my displeasure in a few entries about the protests going on at Mormon churches and temples, but overall I have been quiet and yet highly agitated. I learned many years ago that I have an amazing ability to offend, annoy, and otherwise alienate people when I speak in an agitated mood, so I’ve had to hold back some. Until now.

I read an article on the website www.truthwinsout.org that compared the plight of the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender community to the plight of the Jews and African Americans. It even went so far as to say those whom felt the sting of discrimination were now stepping on new victims of hate.

This is where the nonsense stops, to compare the GLBT plight for gay marriage to the Jews or the African Americans is not fair, and it spits upon the memory of millions who lost their lives out of no fault of their own.

No members of the GLBT community have been oppressed since the time of Julius Ceaser. They have not been rounded up by tribal kings and sold in chains to the highest bidder. They were not forced into putrid conditions, raped, hung, and drug to death simply because their skin was different.

No members of the GLBT community have been rousted out of their beds at night and forced into Warsaw ghettos. They did not stand in lines while soldiers tore their family members away at gunpoint. They were not forced into gas chambers, work camps, or shot in the streets. The Jews, like the African Americans, suffered some of the most horrendous treatment human beings can devise and to even think that the gay community has claim to that suffering is sickening.

Thankfully we live in a civilized society where these people will not have to suffer like that. But this new rage and hate coming from the GLBT community has already gone too far, and I fear it will get even worse unless someone on their side speaks up and calls for common sense. Until then, they should expect that the harder they push, the harder the public will push back. And the more they try to compare themselves with those who have truly suffered, the more they will ensure that they will never be alike.