Bryan and the Nazis

Among Bryan Fischer’s more curious hobbies is a fondness for recreating homoerotic concentration camp fantasies and emailing them to his distribution list. We’re not sure how, or even if, this dovetails with his objective ‘to make Idaho the friendliest place in the world to raise a family,’ but Bryan's bizarre fascination with all-things-gay never ceases to entertain.

In a recent newsletter, Bryan shamelessly conflates homosexuality with fascism while peddling a laughably outlandish version of history in the process. He declares that there exists a ‘strain of fascism in the homosexual movement’ and that ‘[m]any Nazi prison camps were run by homosexuals.’

Are you joking, Bryan? The primary ambition of the Nazi Party was to secure and expand the social and political power of the ‘Master Race.’ As you're wont to note, gay men and women do not reproduce in their relationships; how would they contribute to the grand Nazi plan?

Bryan’s claim fails to withstand even the most basic scrutiny.

Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of gays and lesbians were arrested under the Nazi regime. Lesbian and gay members of the Nazi party were systematically purged and murdered, and tens of thousands more perished in concentration camps.

Bryan’s purposive dishonesty demonstrates a disgraceful contempt for the life and memory of those murdered at the hands of the Nazis.

But whether there existed gay Nazis is an entirely irrelevant debate. It’s absurd and illogical for Bryan to claim that there is some intrinsic link between homosexuality and fascism. Countless tyrannical and murderous leaders are and were heterosexual; was being straight the impetus for Stalin’s purges? And who would blame sexuality for Mao’s 'Great Leap Forward' or Slobodan Milosevic’s ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia?

Certainly no one with a shred of intellectual integrity.