With the passage of Proposition 8, California reverts back to some of its darkest chapters, back to the days when it was illegal for African Americans to marry whites, back to when it was illegal for Native Americans to be citizens and back to when seperate was considered equal.

It also takes us back to the end of the 1930's when Hitler and the Nazi Party were in charge of Germany. What they needed more than anything was someone for the public to hate. And, they found that "someone" in the form of the Jews of Europe.

The Night of the Broken Glass
"On the night of November 9, 1938, violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned, set off by Germans' anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager. In fact, German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. In two days, over 1,000 synagogues were burned, 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by. The pogroms became known as Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets."

What will prevent the good people of the State of California from behaving in the same manner as the good people of Germany did?  Some of you will probably be surprised to learn that Hitler was of the Christian faith and he believed deeply that he was acting in the name of God:

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people." Adolf Hitler, April 12, 1922

When you go out preaching against anyone, you should think about the slippery slop you are on.  It doesn't take all that much to lead from rhetoric to hatred to violence in this world.  And, that works both ways.