A North Carolina lawmaker has sparked outrage after describing Abraham Lincoln as “the same sort of tyrant” as Adolf Hitler. Republican representative Larry Pittman drew the comparison between the first Republican president of the U.S. and the Nazi leader on Facebook in response to a comment criticizing a bill he had introduced to nullify the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage in North Carolina. Pittman, a representative in the North Carolina General Assembly, wrote in his bill filing that the state should uphold traditional marriage “in spite of the opinion of a federal court,” The Charlotte Observer reports. “And if Hitler had won, should the world just get over it?” he commented. “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.” Read more http://www.newsweek.com/abraham-lincoln-adolf-hitler-north-carolina-larry-pittman-583623
