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Lori Comstock can be reached on on Facebook: by phone: 97. Adolfo Martinez did not fight the charges, saying he committed the act 'intentionally'. "That alone, I think, brings a congregation together." EST A new pride banner was displayed June 26 above the door at. "Over the last couple of weeks I've been able to sit with people and hear a little bit more about their feelings and how this has affected them," Bechtold said. He burned a church’s LGBTQ flag and got 16 years.
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WYOMING, Ohio (FOX19) - Wyoming police are investigating. Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames last month was found guilty of a hate crime a class D felony third-degree harassment and reckless. The family says theyve already ordered a new, bigger flag to replace the burned one. The church had their own spare flag ready to go, for when it started to look weathered, so it went right back up within 24 hours, Bechtold said.Īnd while not everyone who attends the church is on the same page when it comes to inclusivity - some just view it differently than others, Bechtold said - the incident has brought church members closer together. As Robert Heinlein predicted long ago, these are the crazy years: An Iowa man was sentenced to about 16 years in prison after he set fire to a church LGBTQ flag in June. "I've lost count of how many new flags and money to buy new flags we've received," he said, adding they will now have plenty in reserve and monies to buy more in the future. Much was the same with the response from the community, with members, friends of the church, pastors and other United Methodist church leaders reaching out to express their support, sorrow and anger - some who Bechtold said have differing views on what inclusion looks like to them. A gay pride flag that hangs from the May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society church building in Syracuse was found burned on Sunday in what the church. Bechtold discussed the incident during worship services and a few people expressed their distress over the incident, some of whom had never spoken out before. The resolve was quick, including that very morning the flag was found.