Conservatives here are like the European Jews (1100–1945 CE). The Jews were periodically for the high jump and there was no act of acceptance, confession, or apostasy that would spare us. Jews who were descended from Jews, were defending Jews, converted to Judaism, or were married to Jews were slaughtered. “I’m Jewish but I’m not that Jewish.” The contemporary phrase meaning “Hate my brothers, but accept me” was no protection against the Inquisition, the Crusades, or the handy Luger.
