Iowa Man Gets 16 Years For Burning LGBTQ Flag; Gay Rights Group Says Excessive

I agree with Lon, good grief 16 years!

Agreed, the queers have all the rights, good American have none unless we kiss the faggots arses.

Amazing how burning the American Flag is merely Freedom of Speech, but burning a LGBTQ flag is a hate crime. If this is now the standard, how is burning the American Flag NOT a hate crime, and if you are citizen doing it, not treason? Seems to me, the day the Supreme Court ruled that burning the US Flag is freedom of speech, they pretty much set a precedent in this matter. This should be expeditiously overturned by the SCOTUS, if not, a Presidential pardon should be in order.

I meant DON’T have….

It really irks me when someone takes the opportunity to use their Bible to proliferate their hate or intolerance of those they do not like or understand.
Much of the debate over same sex relationships or marriage or homosexuality in general centers on one’s belief of whether homosexuality is a sin. If homosexuality is a sin, and marriage is ordained by God to be between a man and a woman, then the faithful can be tolerant of a sin but they cannot support it.
None of the major Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, or Islam) support homosexuality or gay marriage. The Judeo-Christian belief that homosexuality is a sin is based on the relatively few scriptures that can be found in the Old and New Testament of the Bible. Interpretation of the scripture varies between liberal and conservative scholars. For example many people interpret the word “sodomite” in scripture to mean homosexual rather than simply a resident of Sodom — even though there was no word for homosexual or homosexuality in Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek. And, one must remember much of the known scriptures were written for the era at the time, and also by authors decades and life-times away from the original stories and sermons.
And, one must also consider that there are several examples of close relationships written about in biblical scriptures that allude to possible homosexual love and desires (the entire book of Psalms, story of Ruth). And one must also remember what we have today (in English) is an interpretation by the monk scribes enlisted by King James of England. They had an ignorant view of the world, and limited physical knowledge of mankind in general. They thought bathing would kill them. They literally ate rotten meat, by hanging fowl from the eves until it was ‘tender’, then the cooked it. They had a lot of superstitions, and Medical Science was evil. Many of the ancestors of modern medicine were put to death for trying to figure out how the body works.
Then, there’s Paul’s message to the church at Corinth. Christians follow the New Testament, and are not bound to Levitican Law (Old Testament). Of course, Leviticus is there as a guide, and there is a lot more about human species maintenance than anything else. If modern-day Christians were to allow for things like divorce, and adultery; then they must allow for things like same sex relations. There certainly are more ‘laws’ on other (now) modern human conditions that are forbidden in Leviticus. And, most punishments are death. So before you throw your stone, make sure you have no guilt or sin. Only God can judge. “He who is without sin may throw the first stone.”
We have come a long way since medieval times.
If you are going to stake your opinion on gay marriage based on what the Bible says about homosexuality it would be a good idea to have read the scriptures, and understand where they come from. The is nowhere in scripture that dictates anything against discussion and opinion. That is where pure belief sets in.
Here is a list of the twelve scriptures that allude to homosexuality that can be found in the Bible;
1. Genesis 19:5: “And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them.”
2. Leviticus 18:22: ” Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”
3. Leviticus 20:13: “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
4. Deuteronomy 23:17: ” There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.”
5. Judges 19:22: “Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.”
6. 1 Kings 14:24: “And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.”
7. 1 Kings 15:12: “And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.”
8. 1 Kings 22:46: “And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.”
9. 2 Kings 23:7: “And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.”
10. Romans 1:26: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. 27: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.”
11. 1 Corinthian 6:9: “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind.”
12. 1 Timothy 1:9: “Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers. 10: For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;”
13. Psalms and The Song of Solomon.
14. The book of Ruth.