So it's taken just under 60 years for the state of Israel to forget "Never Again!"-- that clarion cry of the post-Holocaust world. Despite the fact that the Pink Triangle stands at the side of the Yellow Star in Holocaust museums throughout Europe and the United States, the Israeli parliament, swayed by militant extremists, singles out a minority and works towards legislation designed to marginalize and exclude that minority from basic constitutional rights. Of all the places on earth where such a horrible thing would be unimaginable, Israel should be at the top of the list, a nation born from the agony and horror of the Nazi era.

When the Polish government attacks Tinky Winky for subversive gay messages, it's a challange to the dignity and intelligence of the Polish people. When the United States Congress considers limiting the civil rights of gay Americans within the framework of the Constitution, it's a betrayal of the Bill of Rights. But when the Israeli parliament considers legislation targeting the civil rights of any minority, but a gay minority in particular, it is a betrayal of a 3,500 year-old tradition, a profound insult to every Jew in every nation across the globe and to every minority struggling for equality in 2007 and, more importantly, it is a foul insult to the memory of the Six Million.

I cried today as I considered the antics in Jerusalem over the past few days. And while this effort is the work of extremists and fundamentalists, and while Israel has proven itself to be a haven for queers in the Middle East and in some ways even more progressive than the United States in providing full civil rights for the LGBT community, this abomination in the Knesset should be considered no less an offense to the memory of the Six Million, democracy and minority rights than the insulting insanity that comes from the lunatic president of Iran.

"Never again" did not mean 60 years, It meant never.