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2003-04-07 07:59 | User Profile
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Hearing Set For Gay Holocaust Denier
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
April 4, 2003 12:02 a.m. ET/+5GMT/-3PT
(St Paul, Minnesota) Minnesota state Rep Arlon Lindner will be hauled before a House ethics committee next week over his allegations that gays were not targeted in the Holocaust.
Democrats, gays, and Jewish groups have accused Lindner of "homophobic rewriting of history".
The committee has set aside next week to hear arguments for Lindner's censure.
The censure motion calls it "a case of Holocaust revisionism that brought disrepute to the legislative body."
During debate on two bills by the Republican representative that would repeal gay rights laws in the state, Lindner said gays and lesbians falsely attempt to portray themselves as victims in society. He then claimed that as an example gays were lying when they cited thousands of gays who were exterminated or sent to concentration camps by the Nazis.
"It never happened," Lindner told the House.
"I was a child during World War II, and I've read a lot about World War II," he said. "It's just been recently that anyone's come out with this idea that homosexuals were persecuted to this extent. There's been a lot of rewriting of history." (story)
Days later he angered HIV/AIDS patients and African Americans when he said: "If you want to sit around and wait until America becomes another African continent, you do that," Lindner said. "But I'm going to do something about that."
Lindner's legislation would remove the state human rights amendment that protects gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Minnesotans from discrimination in employment, housing, education and other areas. It also would remove sexual orientation as a protected class in hate crimes laws
At next week's censure hearing Democratic leaders are planning to supply both a Jewish Holocaust survivor who says she witnessed anti-gay attacks and a local university professor who has compiled an archive of documents outlining Nazi persecution against gays.
To date Lindner has refused to apologize for his remarks. His lawyer, James Anderson, has repeatedly insisted that Lindner is the victim of persecution against Christians.
"It is basically an attempt to muzzle a Christian, and, I think, at the bottom of it all is liberals today are not going be satisfied until every Christian is walking around wearing a muzzle."
2003-04-07 18:46 | User Profile
How many people, if any, will have their eyes opened by yet another case of a politician or public figure getting their figurative 30 lashes for making some truthful remarks? Moran, anyone?
2003-04-07 21:41 | User Profile
If this man goes on the rest of his life without one apology, then he is a man.
2003-04-08 00:34 | User Profile
Originally posted by Robbie@Apr 7 2003, 21:41 ** If this man goes on the rest of his life without one apology, then he is a man. **
Amen.
2003-04-08 03:24 | User Profile
"It is basically an attempt to muzzle a Christian, and, I think, at the bottom of it all is liberals today are not going be satisfied until every Christian is walking around wearing a muzzle."
Except for a few brave men like Lindner every Christian is ââ¬Åwalking around wearing a muzzle.ââ¬Â