Republican Texas Congressional candidate and Evangelical pastor Johnny Teague tells John Solomon’s shitty website he was “horrified” that his novel “The Lost Diary of Anne Frank” in which the titular teenage Holocaust victim finds Jesus before dying in a concentration camp drew appropriate criticism from a Jewish media outlet. “I’m not proselytizing,” Teague said in response to a Jewish Telegraphic Agency article that accurately described the book as proselytizing.
“I’m horrified” by the article, Teague said, claiming that his imposition of Christianity on Jewish Holocaust victims “wasn’t intentional.” A right wing apologist rabbi agreed, offering a boilerplate apologist statement for Teague. “I don’t think it’s very important, or that it reflects animus against Jews. The fact that he devoted so much of himself to a story of Jewish persecution is perhaps more noteworthy than whether the heroine, in his telling, thought about becoming Christian. There’s quite enough real antisemitism today that we shouldn’t try to impute bad motivations when a writer looks at things through the lens of his own beliefs,” Rabbi Yakov Menkin told JustTheNews.