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Source: Charlotte Observer
A day after setting off one firestorm, a Cabarrus County lawmaker set off another Wednesday by calling Abraham Lincoln the same sort (of) tyrant as Adolf Hitler.
Republican Rep. Larry Pittman of Cabarrus County made the comparison in a Facebook post in response to a comment criticizing a bill hed introduced that would nullify the U.S. Supreme Courts decision on same-sex marriage in North Carolina.
In his post, Pittman said North Carolina should uphold traditional marriage in spite of the opinion of a federal court.
And if Hitler had won, should the world just get over it? he wrote. Lincoln was the same sort if (sic) tyrant, and personally responsible for the deaths of over 800,000 Americans in a war that was unnecessary and unconstitutional.
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