Stealing a LGBT “Pride” flag from a church and burning it outside a local strip club has landed an Ames, Iowa resident in prison for sixteen years, on hate crime charges:
Adolfo Martinez, 30, has been found guilty of a hate crime, third-degree harassment and reckless use of fire for stealing. He was arrested after police said he stole a pride banner hanging at the Ames United Church of Christ on June 11.
Martinez later burned the purloined flag, doused with lighter fluid, outside the Dangerous Curves Gentleman’s Club, which had actually been kicked him out earlier that day. He had also threatened to burn down the club.
Martinez admitted to burning the flag and was found guilty last month. He was sentenced on Wednesday to 16 years behind bars. The harsh sentence is mostly due to the hate crime charge, which is a class D felony.
Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds said the hate crime charge stemmed from the fact that authorities believe Martinez burned the flag because of “what it represents as far as sexual orientation.”
Martinez had previously admitted to media outlets after being arrested that he “opposed homosexuality” and he was “guilty as charged.”
“I burned down their pride, plain and simple,” he said. The quote was later used against him by prosecutors. Reynolds said Martinez is the first person in the county’s history to be convicted of a hate crime.
Ironically, had Martinez chosen to steal and burn the American flag, he would have been treated far less harshly. The US Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that burning the Old Glory is a protected act under the First Amendment.
If this ‘Christian’ church had ‘turned the other cheek’ and shown mercy on this man by refusing to press charges against him, there would be no case against him, and chances are, he would have walked away a free man.
But clearly this church is far more interested in making a political, anti-biblical statement than it is upholding the true teachings of Christ.
And it is a truly sad state of affairs when a non-Israelite Mexican has the courage to confront the hypocrisy of this church rather than the White Israelites who fill the pews and condone sodomy.
This Mex-merican is probably in Ames, Iowa because he migrated there for the abundant jobs in the jewish-owned meat packing plants which are notorious for hiring illegal mestizos.
murderers walk daily, and this guy gets prison for doing nothing wrong ?!?!? in fact, sounds like he did what we all should be doing…
Yep, land of the free….
God help us.
Hal Lindsey single-handedly killed America because he delivered tens of millions of Christians into the pro-Israel, pro-Zionist, pro-Neocon fold. Satan, himself, could not have done a better job.(2) Hal Lindsey is one of the world’s greatest charismatic Evangelical crusaders, his success led to ruination of America, he converted and delivered millions of believers and molded them into a right wing Christian Zionist grass roots political movement. No man did a better job recruiting loyalists for Zionist Israel and prepping conservative Christians for the upcoming Neocon future.
HAL LINDSEY SAYS HELL YES TO THE BIBLE GOD AND ISRAEL
AND WILL NEVER TELL YOU ISRAEL DID 911
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Don’t chicken out this time.
We deleted the link to the article you quoted because it promotes atheism. While we agree with you that Hal Lindsey has deceived millions of Christians, it’s not because God isn’t real, as that article alleges. This is a Christian site. If you want to promote atheism, as you’ve done in the past, find a more appropriate and receptive venue for your views.
With each passing day, Christianity become ‘browner’ and ‘browner’, and these brown ‘Christians’ are much more easy to manipulate into accepting the radical social agenda that now controls the vast majority of brick and mortar churches.
And the most ‘conservative’ churches are rabidly pro-zionist, so there really is no choice for most White truly conservative Christians. It will become an underground movement for Whites with no central authority to undermine and no 501C3 tax exempt status to be manipulated with.
Yep the local Methodists held a conference meeting it was said: What is wrong with a homosexual relationship. Like a red flag to a bull I proposed it was an error of reading the only authority known to the true church the word of God. The Freemasons stooge handler stood up to silence all decent. I had my day and won the locals winked as I walked in protest. Eumenical lies and deceivers.. You are warned do not let the even talk they are illterate haters of God. Sure the man in the pulpit that day was part of the G agenda.
Hey white Amerika…
HERE’S YOUR SIGN!!!