Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

That’s a poem written in 1946 or so by Martin Niemöller, a German pastor who spoke out against the Nazis, but regretted not standing up for his Jewish neighbors during his own imprisonment. Here’s how a Christian in Iowa, in light of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission’s latest measure about churches and public accommodations(1), might rewrite Niemöller’s poem today, considering the advancement of the modern sexual revolution:

First they came for the florists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a florist

Then they came for the bakers
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a baker

Then they came for the photographers 
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a photographer

Then they came for the pastors
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a pastor

Then they came for me 
And there was no one left
To speak out for me