Just like in Nazi Germany ... if you're totally flipping nuts.
The Texas legislature is
considering a bill that would block state or local funds from being used "for an activity that includes the licensing or support of same-sex marriage." After all, there's a limited amount of time left before the Supreme Court decides on marriage equality, and there are a lot of temper tantrums to throw before then, at least for a certain type of person. A person like this:
“It’s not marriage—it’s a mirage, it’s a counterfeit, it’s a lie,” said Dr. Steve Hotze, president of the Conservative Republicans of Texas. “It will never be a marriage no matter what they say, because it violates God’s standards, and he sets the standards.” [...]
“If you passed a law that we’re going to go and round up people of an ethnic group and put them into jail and exterminate them, would you abide by that law?” Hotze responded. “What did they do in Nazi Germany? It was legal to round up Jews and put them in the chambers and kill them. And the defense they said is, that was the law.”
In case he hadn't gone quite far enough with his charm offensive, Hotze also compared LGBT people to alcoholics and murderers. But I think the Nazi one says it all. To Hotze, treating people's relationships equally is like genocide.
Not discriminating against same-sex marriages is like sending Jewish people to gas chambers. You or I might look at this and say "hey, the Nazis were all about treating people worse because of who they were ... and that included gay people." But that is not how the head of the Conservative Republicans of Texas thinks—or speaks before a committee of his state's legislature.
Hotze, by the way, was just one of 15 people testifying in favor of the bill.