From Michael Hamar:
365gay reports that Minnesota state Rep. Arlon Lindner has lost the state GOP’s endorsement to run for another term of office.
In recent years, Lindner has reportedly called Jews irreligious, insulted Buddhists, and jointly blamed African-Americans and HIV/AIDS patients for turning the United States into “another African continent.”
Lindner’s views on the Holocaust are drawn from the claims of ex-gay activist Scott Lively. Both assert that not only were homosexuals not persecuted in Nazi Germany, but that the Nazi leadership was homosexual. The pair’s Holocaust-denial theories are dissected by Stephen Feinstein, director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota, and by The Annotated Pink Swastika, among other sites.
Google lists nearly 200,000 documents referencing Nazi persecution of homosexuals; a great place for novices to start is the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s section on Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals.
Background information:
Salon blogger Duane and Blogspot blogger Brooklyn Bridge covered Lindner’s original Holocaust-denial statements in March 2003.
Duane helpfully linked to 365gay articles (archived copies courtesy of archive.org) and to Lively’s political outfit.
Brooklyn gathered some Minnesotan context for the story, including a link to a Star-Tribune article from March 11, 2003. That article, too, is archived.
Pink Triangle https://www.pink-triangle.org/ and People with a History https://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/index.html especially https://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/index-eur2.html#c13 also contain some useful information.
Unfortunately, people like this only get punished when they go too far. Most anti-gay zealots know how to tow the line and do far more damage to far more people than this psycho ever could have. Examples of that in Minnesota alone are a state senator named Michele Bankeman (or something like that) who rallied thousands of men and women to go and harrass DFL senators who did not want to vote for an anti-gay state constitutional amendment. These people held up signs saying “DEATH PENALTY FOR GAYS!!!” and she, along with the House author of the amendment, Mary Liz Holberg, and the governor, Tim Pawlenty, praised them and encouraged them for their actions.
If you want to help fight these bigots in Minnesota, please go here:
https://www.outfront.org
And there are so many others, if you live in these states:
https://www.actionwisconsin.org
https://www.sr595.org
https://www.massequality.org
On and on.