Who will N.C. marriage amendment backers target next? is an excellent commentary from McClatchy News.

Besides the commentary itself, it quotes something that I always think about and now have an opportunity to post so that I can remember these beautifully written words.

Theologian Martin Niemoller predicted what will happen then when he wrote:

First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

As a Jew, I am one step down on the ladder from most of the rest of you.  Maybe that is why these thoughts speak to me so loudly.