North Carolina legislator Calls Lincoln a Tyrant Compares to Hitler
Amazingly there are still people in the South fighting the Civil War. Even more amazing is the fact that some of these people are elected oficials. Republican Representative Larry Pittman went so far as to call Abraham Lincoln a tyrant on the same level as Hitler! If he can’t let the Civil War go, the war the confederates clearly lost, he’s definitely not letting go of gays being allowed to marry. Not on his watch.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A North Carolina legislator used his Facebook campaign page on Wednesday to compare President Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler.
Cabarrus County Republican Rep. Larry Pittman posted the comment in response to a torrent of criticism over legislation he and two others sponsored in the General Assembly to restore a state ban on same-sex marriage.
In the lengthy thread, someone posted that “the Civil War is over. The Fed won. Get over it.”
In an apparent response, Pittman said, “And if Hitler had won, should the world just get over it? Lincoln was the same sort of tyrant.”
Pittman wrote on his page that Lincoln was “personally responsible for the deaths of 800,000 Americans in a war that was unnecessary and unconstitutional.”
The web site www.civilwar.org says an estimated 620,000 men died in the line of duty during the Civil War. But a 2012 story in The New York Times said a historian from Binghamton University in New York recalculated the death toll and raised it to 750,000.
North Carolina Democratic Party chairman Wayne Goodwin called on Republican leaders to condemn Pittman’s comments.
“Representative Pittman and his ultra-conservative allies in the General Assembly have no sense of decency, no sense of shame and no sense of historical fact,” Goodwin said in a statement.
The bill co-sponsored by Pittman claims the U.S. Supreme Court overstepped with its 2015 ruling that effectively voided an amendment to North Carolina’s constitution forbidding same-sex marriage. Voters approved the amendment in 2012.
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