Open LGBTQ Hunting Season? What if 3 Anti-Jewish Bills Passed in 1 Day?

In one day last week, three bills and one shocking executive action sent even more queer Floridians packing their bags. Meanwhile, in Africa, an anti-queer bill has inspired beatings and killings.

I met Corrie ten Boom (image credit) in church as a small child. Would she have resisted the dehumanization and persecution of LGBTQ people the way she resisted Nazis dehumanizing and persecuting Jews? I have little doubt.

In a spartan safehouse with flimsy curtains and no furniture northwest of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, people from neighboring Uganda clung to the few valuables they could snatch while fleeing harsh new legislation targeting them back home.

— Opening paragraph of a recent New York Times story.

A few days ago, a friend on Twitter asked me about three anti-LGBTQ bills that passed the Florida House in one day. “What if three anti-Jewish laws passed?” he asked me. Would people finally admit that genuine fascism is gaining ground in America?

Around the same time, Sherry Kappel of Our Human Family asked if I’d read a horrifying story in the New York Times titled, We Will Hunt You (free link), detailing anti-LGBTQ beatings and killings inspired by Uganda’s latest Kill the Gays bill, which severely criminalizes identifying as bisexual, gay, or transgender — imposing decades-long prison sentences and even the death penalty in certain…