While addressing the Values Voter Summit this morning, Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver trotted out his favorite claim that the contraception mandate means that America is literally worse than countries like Nazi Germany or Rwanda because those nations never forced their citizens to directly participate in carrying out genocide.

“Now, in America of all places, you and I are being forced to participate in human genocide by the HHS mandate,” Staver said.

“We’ve never been forced in any time in world history to participate in the killing of innocent people and yet today we are,” he continued. “No generation has faced what we currently face now … and we cannot be silent in the face of this tragedy [of] human genocide being forced upon Americans”: