Near the end of his radio program yesterday, American Family Radio host Bryan Fischer once again heaped praise upon Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis for preventing her office from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, in defiance of court orders, calling her a “hero” and likening her to someone who refused to send Jews to Nazi death camps or to return runaway slaves to their owner.

“What would be think today of a clerk in her position and this is a clerk that controls entrance in and out of the town of Auschwitz?,” Fischer asked. “There’s this box car that pulls up and she knows that there are Jews in the box car that are headed to the gas chambers and yet she has to sign a certificate allowing this train to proceed through Auschwitz to get to the other side of town. Now, the law says you have got to do it … What would we think of her if she said, ‘No, I’m not going to sign that certificate’? I think we would regard her today as a hero for honoring her conscience when it came to an important issue.”

“And then you think about Dred Scott,” he continued. “What would we think if we had a lower court judge, a magistrate, let’s say, in Wisconsin, who said, ‘I’m not going to sign that warrant. You want me to sign a warrant to go kidnap or capture a fugitive slave and return him to slavery? I’m not going to do it even though the Supreme Court says that that negro has no rights.’ I think that we would regard that guy today as a hero and that’s how I look at Kim Davis.”