I saw a one woman performance of the play, "Etty" based on the life of Etty Hillusem, a Dutch Jew who was sent to the Nazi concentration camps in WWII. It was directed by Austin Pendleton of movie/B'way fame, and Susan Steiner was the actress. Broadway quality.
I was shaken by the play. A few weeks ago saw a play about Japanese internment camp in WWII. Normandy and celebrations the past few days came to mind. Rwanda. Cambodia. Jim Crow laws. Stonewall. LGBTQ rights.
During our fight against Amendment 1 in NC, a Baptist pastor thought there should be a fenced area in western NC to house all us LGBTQ people. The same impulse behind Naziism's fence is in all of us, on all issues.
Pax!
B
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