Editor’s Note: The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about a lawmaker apologizing for his remarks comparing Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler. The apology was posted on a parody Twitter account not run by Rep. Larry Pittman.
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.
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In the lengthy thread, someone posted that “the Civil War is over. The Fed won. Get over it.”
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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.”
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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 website http://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.
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