Martinez admitted to police that he lit the banner on fire with lighter fluid and a lighter after stealing it from the church, according to court documents. He was arrested after stealing a pride banner hanging at Ames United Church of Christ, 217 6th St., and burning it early June 11 outside Dangerous Curves Gentleman’s Club, 111 5th St., police said.Īdolfo Martinez (Photo: Special to the Register) 19, 2019Īn Ames man was sentenced Wednesday to about 16 years in prison after he set fire to a church’s LGBTQ flag in June.Īdolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, was found guilty last month of third-degree arson in violation of individual rights - hate crime, third-degree harassment, and reckless use of fire as a habitual offender. Register Staff Reports ( ) Published 9:53 a.m. Read this story and weep for our nation! Iowa man who sets LGBTQ flag on fire gets over 15 years in prison These are in-your-face signs of a society that is sliding downhill rapidly en route to hell! Moreover, they’re fascistically imposing their perverse, upside down values upon the rest of society through the leftist media and leftist judges and politicians. Moreover, what do you think the penalty would have been had this man burned a Christian flag, or an American flag? Well, now that’s different, isn’t it? This is freedom of speech, not hate speech!Ĭan you see the lunacy of the liberal left? They have turned truth, morality and anything that is good on its head, so that they now view good as evil, right as wrong and up as down. Really now! Sixteen years in prison for burning a homosexual pride flag? Does the penalty fit the crime? Who in a non-twisted and non-morally perverted mind would think so?
Yet the biblical Gideon did a similar thing when he tore down the pagan idols in his home town, and the Bible lauds him for his brave act of righteousness! And how about Yeshua overturning the money changers tables in the temple? Should the man have stolen the flag from the church? Maybe not. On the other side of the police cordon, LGBT+ people and their mostly leftist allies said they were combatting ‘facism’.Here is another example a justice run amok by leftist, amoral God-haters including this particular so-called Christian church.
Warsaw saw LGBT+ activists face off against nationalists. Meanwhile the nationalists collected signatures supporting anti-LGBT+ bills – including a proposal to stop Pride and other LGBT+ marches.
Moreover, he argued that the LGBT+ ‘minority’ should not be free to ‘impose political correctness’ on Poland. ‘This is a toxic ideology, dangerous, revolutionary and radical.’
Right wing groups, the National Movement, March of Independence and All Poland Youth organized the nationalists’ gathering.Īll Poland Youth’s former leader, Krzysztof Bosak, who won 6.78% in June’s first round of the Polish presidential election, said (translated): The hateful debate became a major election issue. At the time, he said ‘LGBT ideology’ is ‘worse than Communist doctrine’. It’s the same rhetoric that President Andrzej Duda used during his recent re-election campaign. They shouted (translated): ‘Once a sickle, once a hammer into a rainbow rabble’ and ‘Not red, not rainbow, only national Poland’. Notably the nationalists likened their opposition to LGBT+ rights to Poland’s struggle against Communist dictatorship. And both groups shouted abuse at each other.
The Campaign Against Homophobia wrote: ‘Where they plan to shout slogans of hate, a symbol of the fight for freedom, equality, love and democracy is waiting!’ LGBT+ campaigners chalked the road with a rainbow flag before the protests started. They sparked a massive police response when they chalked a massive rainbow on the street in front of Warsaw University ahead of the two protests. However the LGBT+ campaigners arguably won the battle of the flags. That task proved more challenging and less spectacular because most flags are made from fireproof material. The nationalists even tried to burn rainbow flags. Hundreds of Polish nationalists chanted ‘Stop degeneration’ as they faced off against LGBT+ campaigners in Warsaw yesterday.