Local NC GOPers Compare Gay Pride Flag Over City Hall To Flying Nazi Flag
Source: TPM
ByDaniel StraussPublishedOctober 11, 2014, 4:32 PM EDT
A pair of North Carolina Republicans reportedly likened flying a two-story rainbow flag over city hall in Asheville, North Carolina, to flying a Nazi flag over the building.
That's according to a piece in the Asheville Citizen-Times about a rainbow flag being flown over the building on Thursday as same-sex couples and supporters of same-sex marriage waited for word on a court ruling on same-sex marriage in the state.
The two Republicans, former city councilman Carl Mumpower and former Buncombe County GOP chairman Chad Nesbitt, criticized the move saying the Asheville City Council's decision to fly the flag (the council voted unanimously to display it) violated North Carolina open meeting laws.
"I am equating their methods with the Nazi movement," Mumpower said according to the North Carolina newspaper. "They are indifferent to the rule of law and indifferent to the vote of the people. And that's Adolph Hitler all over again in a different disguise."
A statement from Nesbitt and Mumpower included the depiction of a Nazi flag flying over City Hall, the Citizen-Times reported.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/asheville-north-carolina-gay-pride-flag-city-hall-nazi-flag
They must be campaigning for something. smh
niyad
(113,087 posts)WRONG with these people?
riversedge
(70,093 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)They could care less who the Nazis actually killed.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Even as they shoveled corpses into the ovens.
patricia92243
(12,592 posts)PatrickforO
(14,559 posts)The Nazis believed in the superiority of only one race, what they called the 'Aryan' race. They then began a war, and systematically killed millions of people, including gays, disabled, Poles, Russians, Jews and sundry others before they were finally defeated at horrendous cost.
People who are gay want the same rights other people have when it comes to marriage, medical care, pensions and parenting. Maybe I'm missing something here, but I'm not seeing gay people wanting to exterminate everyone who is different, taking over nations or thinking they are superior to all others. They seem to be regular people who are just trying to live and who want to be treated the same under the law as others.
I'm just not seeing the comparison here. Especially since according to the last poll I saw, over half of Americans approved of gay marriage. Seems like if Chad and Carl actually wanted the will of the people, they would back off on these egregious statements. It also seems like Chad and Carl at the least want to suppress gay people and deny them equal rights under the law.
Perhaps Hitler came to their minds as a sort of Freudian slip...
CurtEastPoint
(18,622 posts)SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)symbolizing Confederate treason.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)paleotn
(17,884 posts)...protecting the rights of a minority from the tyranny of the majority is Nazism? Are you serious? How despicably Godwin can you get?
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Historic NY
(37,449 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,374 posts)over marriage equality finally coming to NC. Too bad they don't know
when to shut their mouths, because all that comes out is an incredible
display of ignorance.
douggg
(239 posts)Nazis had gays in their ranks. So do GOPers.
The GOP has the wrong comparison.
marble falls
(57,014 posts)the trivialization of the Third Reich. Every thing and one can not be compared casually to Hitler or the Nazis.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)And as others have said, the Nazis hated homosexuals.
The parallel of Pukes to Nazis is striking.
riversedge
(70,093 posts)the heck is wrong with so many folks who talk like this.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Welcome to the United States of Ignorance.
supernova
(39,345 posts)Pride flags all over town, like Rainbow Christmas decorations. LOL.
JDDavis
(725 posts)from a group of idiots that think that if two guys marry each other...under a colorful flag
a gas chamber for all straight men and women can't be far behind.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)as long as they get to be the genociders. They'd willingly put to death gay people, liberals/progressives, "Centrists," "moderate Republicans," atheists, people of color, women and children who "step out of line," and anybody who uses contraception or utilizes science-based reasoning skills in any facet of their lives. Because Jesus. And freedumb. And religious "liberty." Sieg Heil, and Amen, too!
littlemissmartypants
(22,599 posts)A couple of idiots throwing the Holocaust around like Mardi Gras beads.
Disgusting. If only tar and feathers were still in fashion, I would volunteer to do the honors.
Thanks for your post, Mister Nightowl.
~ Lmsp 🙌