American who burned a gay-pride flag just sentenced to 16 years in prison!

If you're under 40 or so you may not know that 40 years ago the Supreme Court overturned all laws that declared it was a crime to burn the American flag.  Plaintiffs attorneys argued that burning the flag was a form of speech, so any law criminalizing burning the American flag violated the flag-burner's First Amendment rights.

So according to the Supreme Court it's fine to burn the American flag.  Can't be prosecuted, cuz "Free speech."  Most Americans were outraged, but hey, we're a nation of laws, right?

Because of the ruling by the Supreme f'n Court, you might think the same legal argument would apply if someone burned, say, a flag promoting homosexuality.  I mean, the Court said it's perfectly fine to burn the American flag--"free speech!"--so you'd think...

But as we've all seen by now, in today's America the same act is treated differently when it offends one of what judges have ruled to be "protected groups."  See, a legal theory--"Free Speech!--that's solid enough to make it legal to burning our nation's flag can be totally ignored if someone burns a rainbow flag.

Of course you don't believe that's true.  You can't believe any judge could be so hypocritical as to prosecute burning a gay-pride flag after the damn Supreme Court of the U.S. ruled it was fine to burn the American flag, right?

Well read on sparky:

Last Wednesday a man who burned what the media cunningly reported to be a "church LGBTQ flag" was sentenced Wednesday to over 16 years in prison.

Adolfo Martinez was found guilty of a hate crime, third-degree harassment and "reckless use of fire."

He was sentenced to 15 years "for the hate crime of arson," one year for the reckless use of fire and 30 days for harassment.

Moonbat: "Wait, you lied!  Four paragraphs ago you claimed he was sentenced to 'over 16 years.'  You're lying to fan the flames of paranoia for stupid rethuglicans!  Fake news!"

No, cupcake, court records show the judge ordered the man's three sentences to be served consecutively.  But as most people know, when a leftist bashes several people, the judge almost always orders that the jail terms be "concurrent," meaning they're not added together.  In fact it's hard to recall a case other than this one where a judge ordered sentences to be consecutive.

But hey, if we didn't have two sets of laws--in fact, two sets of rules for everything--Dem pols wouldn't have as many voters, eh?