Originally posted by MJHerman
There is a famous tale told by a priest (I think) who survived the Holocaust. When someone asked him why he didn't object when the Gestapo rounded up the Jews, he replied that it was not his problem because he wasn't Jewish. When the Gypsies were rounded up, same answer. And same answer for everyone else who was shipped off to the death camps. And then he mentions that when the Gestapo showed up to arrest him, there was no one left to speak up. It may be the stuff of legend, but it does a good job of showing why some people object so much to these issues.
"First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." --Pastor Martin Niemoeller
