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Republican Congressional candidate Ian Bayne of Illinois figured out a nice way to draw a little attention to himself. In an email to supporters today, he compared Duck Dynasty's anti-gay Phil Robertson to Rosa Parks. Apparently the title of "Worst Analogy of 2013" has a new contender.

Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty is "Rosa Parks" of our generation http://t.co/ausKWBwg7i — Ian Bayne (@ianbayneisright) December 20, 2013

Bayne, who uses the clever/ironic Twitter handle @IanBayneIsRight, tweeted a link to a blog post that shared the email's content, and which included his intentionally provocative headline.

"In December 1955," the post reads, "Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians." This is the common argument in defense of Robertson's comments, the idea that he was simply expressing his religious faith when he told GQ magazine that "a vagina … would be more desirable than a man's anus" and in which he compared homosexuality to bestiality. It's the argument made by Robertson himself, by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and it's now prompted an unknown candidate in Illinois to draw an extremely poor comparison.