A North Carolina Republican lawmaker on Wednesday compared former President Abraham Lincoln to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during a debate on Facebook about current events.

Cabarrus County Rep. Larry Pittman had been debating Facebook followers about a new bill to ban same-sex marriage that he and two other lawmakers recently sponsored in the General Assembly.

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