http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?sectionid=1&id=2942
So I followed up a few links to get some choice snippets:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3739360.html
""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.""
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/politics/5361857.htm
"He repeated his doubts about the persecution of gays during the Holocaust, and he said if the Legislature doesn't pass his bill stripping gay people of protection under the state's Human Rights Act, Minnesota children may be subjected to a holocaust of their own, and America could become "another African continent."
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Lindner, who has a master's degree in divinity, said later that he was not trying to insult Africans or African-Americans — he was simply trying to say that many people in Africa are infected with HIV or have AIDS."
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/politics/5361665.htm
"Tensions escalated Thursday over a Republican lawmaker's remark that a Jewish colleague had ``irreligious left views,'' as DFLers filed a complaint with the House Ethics Committee.
Rep. Arlon Lindner of Corcoran made the comment toward Rep. Michael Paymar, DFL-St. Paul, during a floor debate over pre-session prayers. The House was deciding whether to lift a year-old ban on religion-specific references in the prayers."
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/politics/5361620.htm
"``As a Christian, I am offended that we would have the Dalai Lama come and speak,'' said Rep. Arlon Lindner, R-Corcoran, in an e-mail to colleagues.
In the correspondence, Lindner said that Buddhism is considered a ``cult'' and that he would not attend the joint session planned for May 9.
``These beliefs are incompatible with Christian principles, and those Christian principles are or have been the governing principles in American society,'' Lindner said in the e-mail.
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``They don't believe that there is one god,'' he said. ``They don't believe Christ is God.'' He said they don't believe in God as creator of the world. ``They believe in evolution and reincarnation,'' he said. ``That is not Christian.''"
-- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/
"A bad thing done for a good cause is still a bad thing. It's why so few people slap their political opponents. That, and because slapping looks so silly." - Randy Cohen.
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