If making a significant change to the state constitution, thus affecting many lives, is your mission, you might not want to compare your opposition to Hitler.
Minnesota anti-gay marriage group Minnesota for Marriage risks losing their position just weeks before public elections due to the comments made by its pastoral outreach director, Rev. Brad Brandon.
In a 40-minute Power Point presentation, Brandon said that Hitler suppressed religious freedom, and religious freedom is what's at stake in the election. Minnesota for Marriage seeks to amend the state constitution to forbid same-sex couples from getting married.
"In this, we're not saying that one side or the another is equal to Adolf Hitler and the atrocities that were committed in Nazi Germany," Pink News has the quote. However, the damage had been done. PN says that one woman in the audience, whose grandparents survived the Holocaust, was not pleased with the comparison.
In what seems like the conservatives' favorite verb this election season, distance, MOM Deputy Campaign Manager Andy Parrish says Brandon's comments were not sanctioned.
Minnesota anti-gay marriage group Minnesota for Marriage risks losing their position just weeks before public elections due to the comments made by its pastoral outreach director, Rev. Brad Brandon.
In a 40-minute Power Point presentation, Brandon said that Hitler suppressed religious freedom, and religious freedom is what's at stake in the election. Minnesota for Marriage seeks to amend the state constitution to forbid same-sex couples from getting married.
"In this, we're not saying that one side or the another is equal to Adolf Hitler and the atrocities that were committed in Nazi Germany," Pink News has the quote. However, the damage had been done. PN says that one woman in the audience, whose grandparents survived the Holocaust, was not pleased with the comparison.
In what seems like the conservatives' favorite verb this election season, distance, MOM Deputy Campaign Manager Andy Parrish says Brandon's comments were not sanctioned.
The article claims that the comments were not those of the organization but those of a single individual who did not have the backing of the organization.
Is this really a story?