Just this morning we had a post noting how Eric Metaxas’ book “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy” had become a favorite of the Religious Right, largely due to parallels they see between Dietrich Bonhoeffer resistance to the Nazi regime and their own opposition to President Obama and his administration.
Now we see that Metaxas and Jennifer Roback Morse of the NOM affiliated Ruth Institute, are featured in a new video from the Acton Institute in which Metaxas declares that, just as Bonhoeffer warned under the Nazis, the time has come for the Church to rise up together against the Obama administration’s contraception mandate because it literally represents “a threat to the United States of America” and failure to stop it means “the end of America” because, as Morse ominously notes, if the government can get away with this, then “they’re going to squash you like a bug”:
