GOP Candidate: Liberals are Just like Nazis

Written by FrumForum News on Monday September 20, 2010

The Hill reports:

The DCCC is going particularly hard after Urquhart, labeling him an extremist and circulating a video in which he equates the separation of church and state with Nazism. In the video, Urquhart suggests church-state separation is a Nazi idea and says, “So the next time your liberal friends talk about separation of church and state, ask them why they’re Nazis.”

A spokesman for the Urquhart campaign, David Anderson, said the candidate has apologized repeatedly for the remark. Urquhart, he said, “believes 100 percent in religious freedom for all Americans.” Anderson said Urquhart was speaking out against the “oppression of religious freedom in the name of separation of church and state,” mentioning limits on school prayer and an attempt to force a veterans cemetery to remove a cross as examples. “The phrase he used was unfortunate, and he apologized for it,” Anderson said.

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