Holocaust Remarks
The complaint from Ellison and company came after Lindner made several comments he made on the floor of the House while he “introduced a bill that would repeal the state's pro-gay human rights amendment and remove sexual orientation from its hate-crimes law.” Lindner said "Most of my life, when the word Holocaust was referred to, it usually referred to the Jewish suffering and death that occurred under the Nazi occupation. It's just been within the recent two or three years that it's been brought forward that homosexuals also suffered like that....It never happened. I was a child during World War II, and I've read a lot about World War II. 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."
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