Did I read that right? 15 years. Rand Paul got the crap beat out of him and the perp got 1 month! This fellow committed what crimes? Trespassing and theft.
Drop the charges for burning the flag but unless he owned the church he should serve time for theft. Burn your own private property not someone else’s.
Why am I reminded of Article 58 from the Soviet Union?
FREE ADOLFO MARTINEZ !
This was a crime, the guy stole and destroyed someone else’s property and might have been careless with fire in a public place. That’s it. This was elevated FAR out of proportion in seriousness, though, and is hardly applied equally to other cases of overt bias hatred.
An old church in Portland had it’s irreplaceable antique stained-glass windows broken out with bricks and stones because the congregation did not believe in “gay marriage.” An activist group even bragged online about doing it. But somehow, the police investigation ran into an immediate “dead end.” No one was questioned. No charges were ever brought. Justice wasn’t even pursued.
This is the case in many other property crimes against Christians.