NC lawmaker blasts Black Lives Matter, calls protesters 'thugs' and 'vermin'

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6. NC legislator compares Hitler to Abraham Lincoln

By Colin Campbell
APRIL 12, 2017 03:48 PM , UPDATED APRIL 13, 2017 01:58 PM

N.C. Rep. Larry Pittman, a Concord Republican, said in a Facebook post Wednesday that President Abraham Lincoln was a “tyrant” similar to Germany’s Adolf Hitler.

Pittman was responding to commenters on his campaign Facebook page who were criticizing his bill that would have directed state government to defy a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and restore the state constitution’s ban on same-sex marriage. House Speaker Tim Moore said Wednesday that the bill is dead and won’t get a hearing.

A commenter reminded Pittman that the Supreme Court ruling settled the law on gay marriage and that the lawmaker should “get over it” ...

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