A North Carolina lawmaker called Abraham Lincoln a 'tyrant' and compared him to Hitler

A North Carolina state lawmaker is coming under fire for comparing President Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler in a back-and-forth with Facebook commenters on Wednesday.Larry Pittman, a Republican representative from Concord, North Carolina, was defendinga bill he filed on Tuesday that would restore aban on same-sex marriage, in defiance ofthe US Supreme Court.One commenter told Pittman to "get over" the marriage ruling, elicitingthe lawmaker's head-turning response."And if Hitler had won, should the world just get over it' Lincoln was the same sort (of)tyrant, and personally responsible for the deaths of over 800,000 Americans in a war that was unnecessary and unconstitutional," Pittman said.Here's the FB comment from Rep. Larry Pittman comparing Abe Lincoln to Hitler #ncga #ncpol pic.twitter.com/dbtoXEoers' Nick Ochsner (@NickOchsnerWBTV) April 12, 2017The seemingly unprompted comparison to Hitler drew immediate backlash from other commenters, one of whom asked him to explain why he thought the Civil War was "unnecessary." Pittman's office did not respond to a request for clarification.The "Uphold Historical Marriage Act," sponsoredby Pittman and three other Republicans, says that the Supreme Court's 2015 ruling on same-sex marriage "is null and void in the State of North Carolina," andcontains language from the Bible. The bill would order state government to return to Amendment One, a same-sex marriage ban that was approved by voters in a 2012 referendum.The bill is not expected to be heard.Pittman's Hitler comment comes one day after White House press secretary Sean Spicer got into hot water forcomparing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to Hitler and misstating facts about the Holocaust. Spicer apologizedfor the comparison Tuesday evening.SEE ALSO:Sean Spicer made 2 more regrettable blunders in his Holocaust apologyDON'T MISS:Fox News commentator brings up Sean Spicer's Holocaust flub after saying producer left it out of the agendaJoin the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: People on Twitter are mocking Trump for pretending to drive a big rig truck
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