Leonard Pitts hit the nail on the head in this
piece:
After qualifying that he takes the Holocaust seriously and does not easily like to make comparisons, he says:
I've long felt the current spate of laws -- you can't do this because you're gay, can't have that because you're lesbian -- bears a discomfiting resemblance to Germany in the 1930s.
Both spring from a mind-set that says a given people are so loathsome, so offensive to our sensibilities, that we are obliged to place them outside the circle of normal human compassion. We don't have to hear their cries, don't have to respect their humanity, don't have to revere their tears, because they are less than we -- and at the same time, are responsible for everything that scares or threatens us.
Amen. He ends with this thought:
Maybe your instinct is to find the comparison unthinkable. Nobody is interning gays, nobody mass murdering them.
You're right. But ask yourself: How many would if they could?