A state senator in North Dakota is receiving backlash over a Facebook post she shared, and later deleted, which featured a photo of a Nazi swastika on top of a rainbow Pride flag.

Janne Myrdal shared a post written by Thomas Schmitz entitled “The Forgotten Gays Part II: Is the LGBT On Crack?” that included the image, and later wrote a post on Facebook trying to declare that the incident was a mistake.

“Recently I re-posted a story on my personal Facebook wall that had an image attached to the link that I was unaware of; I have since deleted the post,” Myrdal wrote. “As a daughter of a family that suffered under the said image, I deplore this image and I would never post this image on purpose.”

It’s hard to say how Myrdal “was unaware” of the image, as it is placed front and center at the top of the article, but she refused to address the incident any further than her Facebook explanation.

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The article itself focused on Jennifer Holliday’s recent decision to back out of performing at this week’s presidential inauguration, accusing LGBT leaders of bullying her until she did what they wanted.

“The core problem is the current direction of the LGBT movement,” Schmitz wrote in the article. “The LGBT movement is laser focused on being a for-profit professional agitation group. An agitation group who targets and attacks citizens opposed to the Democrat agenda. When American citizens stray from the Democrat plantation, they are isolated, polarized and destroyed. This is irresponsible. This is wrong. This is Un-American.”

h/t: The Dickinson Press