Last month, California State University announced that it would no longer recognize a campus Christian organization because the group would not abide by the university’s non-discrimination policy, and naturally Matt Barber and Mat Staver responded by likening the university’s decision it to Nazi persecution of the Jews.

On Liberty Counsel’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program today, Barber declared that this is just another example of “soft persecution” of Christians in America that, it left unchecked, will lead to Christians being imprisoned as they are in China or tortured and beheaded, as they are by ISIS.

“Soft persecution,” Barber said, “can ultimately lead to hard persecution and if things don’t change here in the U.S., that’s the path we’re heading down.”

Not to be outdone, Staver readily agreed as he proceeded to liken the situation to Nazi Germany.

“Even though this kind of persecution or discrimination is not on the same level as what we see in some of these places around the world,” he said, “it is a precursor to that same kind of thing. Once they say that you’re a Christian and because of that, you’re not going to have the same rights, we’re going to stigmatize you; this is what happened with the Jews. It didn’t start off with the gas chambers. It started off with taking away their right to work. It started off with putting the Star of David on these individuals and stigmatizing them and precluding them from other rights and liberties that every other person would have who is not a Jew. So this is something that we need to stand up against”: