And on top of that, he menaced a lesbian couple while burning "THEIR" flag.An Iowa man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison after setting a local church’s LGBTQ flag on fire this past June.ģ0-year-old Adolfo Martinez, according to the Des Moines Register, was arrested after stealing a pride banner and later burning it outside a strip club.
#Is it still a fellony to burn the gay flag windows#
If you took someone American flag from their property and were banging on the windows tellin em how ISIS is gonna get em and then burned it.yeah you'd be prosecuted. Is it still a fellony to burn the gay flag windows# Steve I agree that burning the flag is personally offensive but I agree with the supreme courts decision that it shouldn't be illegal. But neither should the ass kicking you might get if you do it. Your arguments seem to always to be flawed and this one is no exception. If you owned a gay flag, and you lit it on fire and charged a gay couples house, then you would be charged with a hate crime. so don't say "nothing" would happen to you. Ill go out on a limb and say the crosses that were burned in the front yards of black people most likely didn't belong to them. Yes there's a difference.Īside from the fact that the American flag is usually burned in public aimed at no one in particular, whereas this clown stole the gay flag from private property.one act is hate toward a small insignificant segment of society, while the other is hate toward an ideology or a policy/policies of which it's burning is very offensive to a much larger segment of society.Ītop your perch of superiority we'll let you determine who hurts more, the gay or the war veteran/people that love America.
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You had all night to put something more than useless on the board and this is what you came up with? You still dont' get it do you? The drunk guy wasn't making some political statement.he stole someone else's property and menaced them in the middle of the night. Had he burned his own property infront of them and on public grounds, he'd be fine just like anybody that burns the American flag in protest. Oh and you should stop for a second and perhaps thank the supreme court for their decision on flag burning as pertaining to 1st amendment rights to political protest. I don't like it but at the same time if that were made illegal than other forms of dissention are on the table.perhaps some of the things that monkeys like you, walter and cal say here about the current administration could fall that category now.“It made me sad this morning to see that somebody wanted to take down what we think was a sign of love and burn it, but love isn’t that easily defeated,” Woodward told The Bee, his voice breaking with emotion. In an email to her diocese, Northern California Bishop Megan Traquair said the Sacramento Police Department is investigating. Traquair “condemn this act of hatred” and asked her diocese to pray for the person who did it. “While the monetary value of the flag is minimal, the symbolism of the act is immense,” she wrote. “The Pride flag is a symbol of love, of struggle, of sacrifice, by generations of our brothers and sisters. I realize that not all are accepting of our LGBTQ neighbors, but we should all be united in condemning this act. Christ calls us to show love and respect to our neighbors.”įar from being deterred, Woodward, who is gay, decided to step up his Pride celebration. Though the rainbow flag in front of his church was gone, he wore a rainbow cape as he walked his dog, River Song, in the Ru Paws Drag Race dog parade. “It felt nice to be among friendly, affirming people this morning,” Woodward said. “We’re trying to have a conversation with each other in public around our lives as gay people and say, ‘God created everybody.