First they came for prayer in school, and I did not speak out, because I was not a student. Nor did I ever look into the fact that the Supreme Court is not above the law (Article III, Section 1, of the United States Constitution (Ephesians 6:18)).
Then they came to murder the unborn in their mother’s womb, and I did not speak out, because I was not an unborn child. After all, I was told that the Supreme Court could sanction the murder of the innocent in the womb by simply calling it a woman’s choice (Proverbs 6:17).
Then they came for marriage through the legalization of two men or two woman getting “married” to upend America’s sovereignty, and I did not speak out (as if to say the Supreme Court injustices have a God-given right to redefine what God Himself designed), because I did not want to be called a hater or a bigot (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, Romans 1:24).
Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak out for me, because I never spoke out for anyone else (let alone God) (Ezekiel 3).
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1. The only thing they prevented was school sponsored prayer in public school (with mixed success, really) because if it's a public school, the establishment clause does prevent the states and feds from enforcing any one religion. I imagine if everyone was forced to pray to another religion, Bradlee would be against it. One thing I hear does happen is having a few minutes before class of quiet time for prayer, reading, whatever. That's fine.
2. Other people will get into it, don't care so much for chatting about abortion.
3. Ok. What the hell? A. How do same sex couples getting married upend US sovereignty? I think I'm missing a step. B. There is a problem with this. The Bible never condemns polygamy. And when God was supposedly handing out his entire list of rules, apparently defining marriage was less important than him telling people how to cut their hair, not to mix fabrics, not to boil a calf in its mother's milk, and other things like that. He DID decree, if you do believe the Bible, that a woman should marry her rapist however. So there is that.
4. See, when you make allusions to very popular quotes, they should make sense. The quote by Nimeöller doesn't make sense here for three reasons. The first is the groups aren't unique. Pretty much all of these are things the same group of people bemoans and has been using as a sort of rally cry for decades. The second is that no one "came" for any of these. These are issues that were challenged because people believe that the laws are against the Constitution. Final reason is how they are coming for Bradlee. Now, maybe he is this loony, but, coming for you? First get prayer out of school, allow abortions, gays equal marriage rights, then dictatorship? Nimeöller's quote makes sense as it's mentioning getting rid of the opposition groups, this is just a rambling mess.
Granted I likely got a bit rambling, but people this stupid this early in the morning are not great for my typing skills.
--Indeed they are not above the law. Fortunately for us all your beliefs do not have the force of law in our nation in and of themselves. Those that you've managed to sneak into the law do, to be sure, but we're finally rooting those out (as you've been complaining about).
--You cannot murder a cluster of cells. If that was murder then I'd be enacting Old Testament-level genocide every time I get a haircut.
--Seeking to allow everyone equal access to the same right does not magically make the right disappear for everyone. Even by your subterranean-low standards, that's just fucking stupid.
--Nobody is coming to get you for believing in stupid shit. You VASTLY overestimate your importance in the eyes of the enlightened. At best you're good for 30 seconds of bored mockery before being forgotten and never thought about again.
"Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me, because I never spoke out for anyone else"
What? Firstly, why would they (whoever the fuck 'they' are) jump from homosexual marriage to, I dunno, 'coming for people' whatever the hell that means. Secondly, there would plenty people left to speak out because nobody's getting killed over this, unlike the quote you so ignorantly re-purposed to make your non-point.
They did prayer in school, I objected to them wasting my time with primitive nonsense and reminded them they weren't working for the church. Off to the office I was sent to wait twenty minutes to meet the vice principle so he could tell me there was nothing he could do to me about that but he wouldn't stop the teacher and I should just put up with it.
That was the seventies in high school, today I'd lawyer up.
You fail at the Niemöller poem. Niemöller used it to lament his inaction in the face of persecution against people he didn't like/didn't care for, and learned how that backfires because freedom can only exist when everybody is free. You undoubtedly complain about all the things in your version all the time, so you are definately speaking out. It's just you're alone, out on a limb, tilting at windmills.
First they came for the atheists, and I did not speak out because I was not an atheist.
Then they came for mothers who need abortions, and I did not speak out because I was not a mother and did not need an abortion.
Then they came for the g3ighs, and I did not speak out because I was not g3igh.
Then they came for me, and there was nobody left to speak for me.
There, much better.
You fucking prick.
Martin Niemöller wrote about actual people, who were imprisoned and killed ! And you insensitive Arschloch go and compare their fate to yours of finally having to play by the same rules as everyone else! To quote Joseph Welch: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
Oh, and by the by: Niemöller’s poem was about the fate of the communists, socialists and union members by the hand of the Nazis. I didn’t think the people at WND had much use for people like them
First, they came for the slave owners, and I did not speak out because I was not a slave owners.
Then they came for the patriarchy, but I did not speak out because I was not a patriarch.
Then they came for the racists, and I did not speak out because I wasn't a racist.
Now they're coming for the homophobes like me, and if they take us then there won't be anyone left to hate those who are different.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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