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The founder of a group that opposes LGBT rights says that educators working to stop discrimination against lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual students in Massachusetts schools are like "Nazi concentration camp guards."

MassResistance President Brian Camenker on Tuesday told VCY America radio host Jim Schneider that new Massachusetts Department of Education guidelines protecting transgender students were actually doing "harm to kids by encouraging this."

"When you talk to some of these ex-trangenders, the horrible things that it does to them is just astounding," he insisted. "It's insanity. A boy cannot change his sex. Your DNA does not change. And you can call yourself something different, you can dress differently, you can take hormones, you are always a boy."

"And these school administrators, you know, you think of them as like the Nazi concentration camp guards must have been like, where they're doing this horrible evil, and, you know, they're just taking orders or something... they believe in it," Camenker added. "And people need to rise up because it's only going to get worse."

As early as 2005, the MassResistance founder argued that the LGBT movement had similarities to the Nazi movement.

"The Big Lie technique (like other remnants of Nazism and the Nazi movement) has been a focus of the homosexual movement since it coalesced in the late 1980s and began to use the media on a large scale," Camenker wrote. "The Big Lie was first described by Adolph Hitler in his writings, and later refined and put to use on a large scale by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda."

(h/t: Right Wing Watch)

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Despite some brow-beating from CNN's John King, Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen didn't back down or apologize for his statements on the House floor that the lie by Republicans that the Affordable Care Act is a "government takeover" of health care is similar to the techniques used Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

Dem Rep: No apology for saying GOP mendacity is worthy of Goebbels:

Uh oh. Dem Rep. Steve Cohen has no intention to apologize for insisting in a controversial broadside on the House floor that GOP lies on health reform are worthy of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. In a lively interview with me just now, he doubled down on the claim -- hard.

"I don't think calling out liars is uncivil," Cohen told me. "No reason to apologize. You have a duty to respond. if they were telling the truth and I said they were lying, then I would apologize," Cohen continued, referring to Republicans.

In case you missed, it, on the House floor last night Cohen unleashed a head-turning series of claims, arguing that the "government takeover" claim by Republicans is "a big lie, just like Goebbels." He added: "The Germans said enough about the Jews and the people believed it -- and you had the Holocaust."

Conservatives have expressed outrage today and demanded that Dems condemn the comment, but Cohen has no intention of backing off. In our interview he rejected the idea that he had compared Republicans to Nazis.

"I said Goebbels lied about the Jews, and that led to the Holocaust," Cohen said. "Not in any way whatsoever was I comparing Republicans to Nazis. I was saying lies are wrong...I dont know who got everybody's panties in a wad over this statement."

Cohen insisted that the invocation of Goebbels was legit, given the larger context: He said that Repubicans had, in fact, repeatedly used a big-lie technique on health care.

"There have been so many lies about the health care bill," Cohen said, citing "death panels," the GOP rejection of the Congressional Budget Office's finding that repealing reform would hike the deficit, and the claim that health reform represents a "government takeover."

"You can't stop them from saying that lie," Cohen said of the "government takeover" line. "It's their mantra. They go to bed with it. They do Yoga with it."

As one would expect, this has the right wingers going crazy. I think most liberals who follow politics were already more than aware of the amount of propaganda we're being exposed to from Republicans and their enablers in the corporate media without Rep. Cohen pointing it out to us. I also don't believe he meant to literally call Republicans Nazis by giving some historical context to the tactics they're employing. Here are Rep. Cohen's remarks on the House floor.

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