Richard Land, president of the Southern
Evangelical Seminary and a former Southern Baptist Convention
official, has called on Christian conservatives to stand up to the
“gay thought police.”
While guest-hosting FRC's Washington
Week radio show on Tuesday, Land spoke with Fox News' Todd
Starnes about President Barack Obama's recent executive order that
prohibits federal contractors from discriminating against employees
on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
(Related: Obama
on banning gay discrimination: We're on the right side of history.)
In a post, Starnes accused the Obama
administration of being “hell-bent on forcing Christians to
assimilate to the military LGBT agenda.”
“If you cross the gay thought police,
you're in trouble,” Land told Starnes, who was lamenting that too
many pastors refuse to speak out.
“And Todd, you know what my answer to
them is?” Land
rhetorically asked. “It's the answer that was given by the
Lutheran pastor [Martin Niemoller] back when the Nazis were in
control of Germany: 'First they came for the communist, I didn't do
anything because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the labor
union leaders, and I didn't do anything because I wasn't a labor
union leader. They came for the Jews, I didn't do anything. Then
they came for me and there was nobody left to stand up for me.'”
“Don't think because you're passive
and because you're quiet they won't come after you if you dare stand
up and preach your convictions,” he added.