Rafael Cruz, the father of Sen. Ted Cruz, is no fan of the Supreme Court’s landmark gay marriage decision — calling it the work of Satan and destructive to society — or gay people in general, so it was no surprise to hear him bring up Nazi Germany in an interview last month with “The Church Boys” when the discussion turned to the decision.
The elder Cruz attacked the ruling as “a frontal attack on religious liberty” but was hopeful that it would cause pastors to stop being silent on issues like gay rights, saying that they must learn from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German preacher who opposed the Nazi government, before it is too late.
“Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the Second World War in Germany said, ‘Silence in the face of evil is evil itself, not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act.’ We cannot be silent anymore.”
