After reading Jon Gabriel’s piece on Michele Bachmann’s comments regarding converting Jews to Christianity, I thought I’d offer a Jewish response. I get that Evangelicals evangelize, but I wonder how sensitive Christians would be if Joe Lieberman talked about how important it was to get Christians to stop believing in Jesus.

Christian attempts at conversion are a core, visceral issue for many Jews and for reasons unique to Jews. In the West, we who are Jews today are so because our ancestors resisted efforts to convert them, often at great cost to themselves and their loved ones. And our ancestors were the lucky ones, because many didn’t survive these efforts. Their sacrifices will not be in vain. Even though today’s Evangelicals limit themselves to non-coercive persuasion, it reminds us of the darker times in our joint history when significantly harsher tactics were used.

So laugh, scoff, whatever. Tell me I’m making a big deal out of nothing. Or, as Breitbart’s John Nolte tweeted, maybe I should just realize that it’s a “Complimentary act of love, morons.” Hey, I was content to ask Christians to keep their complimentary love to themselves, but Nolte won me over when he called us morons.