BREAKING: Hate crime charges DROPPED, no jail time for Christian vet who beheaded Satan statue at Iowa Capitol

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Religious freedom to oppress other religions.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not sure you read the article. He took a plea deal and took a lesser charge.

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have you dead the article? That religious asshole basically got off without any serious consequences.

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• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These articles fail to point out the reason the Iowa Capitol has a satanic display is because it also has a christian display.

  The Satanic Temple exists only to proposition the government to allow the Temple to do similar things they allow christians to do. They don’t proposition the government to do anything unless a christian group has done it first. If what they’re doing upsets you–that’s the point. The idea is to show how the government shouldn’t be allowing any form of religious displays or religious arguments.

  Also, it gets pointed out all the time, but members of the Satanic Temple don’t actually worship satan. Their name and symbols are simply meant to offend christians.

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• retrospectology@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Religious freedom for me but no one else. The christian way.

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought it was open season on stautues of evil

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    • retrospectology@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What exactly is evil that Satanists believe in?

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• nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Forcing the prosecutors to drop the hate crime is a huge victory for Cassidy and for religious freedom.

  Dude is going get a small fine, no jail time, and the charge is being expunged. Now had it been a satanist beheading a Jesus statue, would things have gone this same way?

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  • quindraco@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes.

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    • applepie@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends on the jurisdiction at the very least

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• BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Time to knock over some crosses and Jesus statues.

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• Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “… we were able to back the prosecutors into a corner …Forcing the prosecutors to drop the hate crime is a huge victory for Cassidy and for religious freedom”

  It’s funny how taking a plea bargain equates to “forcing the prosecutors” and then claiming it is a victory for religious freedom.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s funny how taking a plea bargain equates to “forcing the prosecutors” and then claiming it is a victory for religious freedom.

    It isn’t a victory for freedom of religion. It is nothing more than a plea deal. He took the lesser sentence to avoid potentially losing in court.

    I am not a fan of the plea system because it allows for abuse but it is the system we have in place.

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• quindraco@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why not link to the original source?

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• uzi@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hate crime? What kind of a crime can someone commit absent of all motivated by ill will or hate? There is no universal recognition of such a thing exists. The absence of violent does equate to a peaceful environment.

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  • TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If a starving homeless person steals a granola bar, were they motivated by ill will, or were they motivated by hate?

    Tell me, since you seem so confident.

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    • uzi@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You are using the specific example of a homeless person for emotiobal manipulation purposes of normalcy bias.

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• taanegl@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, good. But then I also hope it’s precedent for wheen i whipe poo all over the baby Jesus nativity.

  But, y’know, religious symbols have nothing, nothing to do in a government building -especially if protestant. That’s the sin of vanity.

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