Rep. Larry Pittman of Concord is the primary sponsor of a bill to reinstate North Carolina’s ban on same-sex marriage. Robert Willett rwillett@newsobserver.com ||||| A North Carolina lawmaker was taking flak Thursday for posting on Facebook that President Lincoln was "tyrant" just like Adolf Hitler. 
 
 State Rep. Larry Pittman made the comparison while responding to critics Wednesday who were blasting him for pushing a bill that would have restored North Carolina’s ban on same-sex marriage in defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court. 
 
 Larry Pittman attends a House session on Jan. 30, 2013. Takaaki Iwabu / The News & Observer via AP file 
 
 It was a commenter’s crack that he should “get over it” that set off Pittman, who is a Republican, a preacher — and apparently still smarting over the South’s loss in the Civil War more than a century-and-a-half ago. 
 
 “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 wrote. 
 
 (The death toll was closer to 620,000, according to the Civil War Trust.) 
 
 The exchange on Pittman’s campaign Facebook page first appeared in a story by the Raleigh News & Observer. 
 
 And while it appears to have been scrubbed from Pittman’s page Thursday there were still plenty of people piling on and calling him a “warm pile of garbage” and worse. 
 
 Larry Pittman comments on his campaign facebook page. Courtesy The News & Observer 
 
 Pittman, who is from the Charlotte suburb of Concord, did not return calls for comment to both his office and home and did not respond to an email. Neither did House Speaker Tim Moore, who is also a Republican. 
 
 The Facebook fracas came after Moore on Wednesday effectively killed Pittman’s bill, which says the Supreme Court ruling in 2015 that legalized gay marriage "is null and void in the State of North Carolina.” 
 
 “There are strong constitutional concerns with this legislation given that the U.S. Supreme Court has firmly ruled on the issue, therefore House Bill 780 will be referred to the House Rules Committee and will not be heard,” Moore said in a statement. 
 
 Pittman made his Hitler crack a day after White House spokesman Sean Spicer had to apologize for saying the Nazi leader "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons" against his own people like Syrian strongman Bashar Al-Assad.” ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites.
– A Republican lawmaker in North Carolina is taking a lot of flak for comparing the first Republican president to Adolf Hitler. State Rep. Larry Pittman of Cabarrus likened Abraham Lincoln to Hitler on Wednesday after a commenter on Facebook criticized a bill he'd introduced to ignore federal rulings and restore the state's ban on same-sex marriage, the Charlotte Observer reports. After being told that the Supreme Court had ruled on the issue and he should just "get over it," Pittman said: "If Hitler had won, should the world just get over it? Lincoln was the same sort if [sic] tyrant, and personally responsible for the deaths of over 800,000 Americans in a war that was unnecessary and unconstitutional." State Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Goodwin called for GOP leaders to apologize for the comments, saying Pittman and his "ultra-conservative" allies in the state assembly "have no sense of decency, no sense of shame, and no sense of historical fact." The Facebook conversation came after House Speaker Tim Moore, a fellow Republican, killed Pittman's bill, saying there are "strong constitutional concerns with this legislation given that the US Supreme Court has firmly ruled on the issue," NBC News reports. Pittman, a Presbyterian pastor, hasn't responded to requests to clarify his remarks, including one from another Facebook commenter who asked why he thought the Civil War was unnecessary, reports the News & Observer.