February 2, 2012 | Online

Man fined for violent Facebook post about gays

A 37-year-old furniture maker in Lithuania took great offense when Lady Gaga criticized his country over its treatment of gays. During a concert in Rome, Gaga denounced countries like Poland, Russia and Lithuania for not doing enough to protect the LGBT community.

The unnamed furniture maker was so angry, he wrote on Facebook: "What we need is another Hitler to exterminate those fags ‘cause there’s just too many of them multiplying."

A Lithuanian gay group got wind of the post and raised the issue with local authorities.

The man was charged with inciting hatred, and was fined $594 by the First District Court of Vilnius. The judge said the man was guilty for using "inflammatory rhetoric and encouraged mockery, defiance, discrimination and physical violence against a group of people or its members on the grounds of sexual orientation."

The man returned to Facebook to issue an apology. "It was not my intention to call for violence against gays and I feel sorry for what was written," he wrote. "I did not expect that this comment would insult anyone in the public domain."

He sounds like the kind of guy who is forced to apologize a lot.

Lithuanian Man Who Called For 'Another Hitler' To Kill Gays ... [Huffington Post]