Posted on 12/21/2019 7:51:40 AM PST by gattaca
An Iowa man will spend up to 16 years behind bars for stealing a pride flag from an Iowa church and setting it on fire — a sentence that even a local LGBTQ group says might be excessive, according to a new report.
Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, was sentenced Wednesday for stealing the pride banner hanging at Ames Church of Christ back in June — and then burning it with lighter fluid and a lighter outside the Dangerous Curves Gentleman’s Club, The Des Moines Register reported.
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If this isn’t a case of cruel and unusual punishment, I don’t know what is. Appeal it all the way to the Supremes, if necessary.
We’re being ruled by the homo mafia.
Yet the Hildabeast walks free.
Headline is WRONG, please read article. It was UNITED Church of Christ, not a Church of Christ. There is a BIG difference. Churches of Christ are very conservative, whereas, United Churches of Christ are just the opposite, so liberal that they no longer follow the teachings of the Bible.
Then it necessarily follows that some flags are more equal than others and there is “good” hate and bad hate. Zeitgeist
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We need to imprison dangerous grandma before it’s too late....the hateful thing!
My grandma and your grand-ma were sit-tin’ by the fire
My grandma told your grand-ma “I’m gon-na set your flag on fire
Talk-in’ ‘bout, hey now hey now I-ko, I-ko, un-day
Jock-a-mo fee-no ai na-né, jock-a-mo fee na-né
A DA usually makes recommendations for sentencing but there is near amazement at the actual sentence by everyone... except the judge?
Combine that with the inability to find the judge’s name in any report anywhere and I am sensing a big fat biased rat in this.
Inclusion of the name of the judge in such articles is (very) common practice.
Why not this one?
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That’s a bit of judicial over-reach. Murderers and rapists s don’t even get that much time.
They already have fire/burn ordinances/laws.
Uncontrolled burn.
I always wondered who would be brave enough to test their tolerance.
That's where they do their best boy-raping.
This guy is a political prisoner, plain and simple.
Unreal aint it? The dude burns a faggot flag and 16 years? GD, this country really needs a CW..
something about using dynamite?
Something like that is what jacked up the sentence ???
When a penknife should have served...
This is *all* about "hate crimes".IOW...cruel...unusual...excessive.
Such bullcrap.
Just more proof that all hate crime laws need to be repealed.
And slobs burning the American Flag walk free!
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