North Carolina Lawmaker Calls Lincoln A "Tyrant Like Hitler"

A North Carolina lawmaker says Abraham Lincoln was a tyrant, just like Adolf Hitler.  Charlotte-area Republican Larry Pittman made the comparison this week in defense of his bill to end same-sex marriage in North Carolina, despite the 2015 Supreme Court ruling.  Pittman wrote on his Facebook page that North Carolina should ignore same-sex marriage in spite of the opinion of what he called a federal court.  

He then compared the 16th president to the Nazi dictator, writing that if Hitler had won World War II, "should the world just get over it," and calling Lincoln "the same sort of tyrant and personally responsible for the deaths of over 800,000 Americans in a war that was unnecessary and unconstitutional."

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