Fischer Likens Anti-Gay 'Pizza Bigots' to Anne Frank

What do the now wealthy anti-gay marriage owners of a pizza shop in Indiana have in common with the 15-year-old girl who, to many, is the face of the atrocities committed by the Nazis against millions of Jews during World War II?

In a recent opinion piece written by Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, a parallel was drawn between the anti-gay marriage owners of Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Ind., and Anne Frank who died in Nazi captivity in 1945.

"The American people are growing increasingly disturbed and even alarmed at the anti-Christian bigotry of the homosexual left and it's vicious name-calling and bullying tactics,"�Fischer said. "They don't like it when a salt-of-the-earth family in Walkerton, Indiana is driven into hiding like Anne Frank simply because their Christian convictions wouldn't allow them to cater a sodomy-based wedding."

Memories Pizza made national headlines earlier this month, when its co-owner Crystal O'Connor told a television news reporter that she would avail herself of the original language of the Hoosier State's recently signed Religious Freedom Restoration Act to deny gays and lesbians pizzas at their weddings. The comment started a media firestorm and prompted the O'Connors to briefly shutter their family owned pizza establishment.

Largely anti-gay supporters flocked to a GoFundMe campaign set up by conservative news host Dana Loesch of Glenn Beck's online outlet "The Blaze" and donated over $850,000 to the O'Connors.

Anne Frank, author of the posthumously published "The Diary of a Young Girl" lived in hiding from the Nazis with her family for two years before being transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she and her sister died. She is perhaps the most discussed Jewish victim of the Holocaust.

In related Fischer news, the anti-gay radio host blasted 2016 Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton for including two same-sex couples in a video announcing her candidacy.