Post by pavel on Feb 27, 2016 1:34:57 GMT -6
No Jail Time For Dallas Man Who Spray-Painted Gay Landmarks With ‘666’
A perennial candidate and political gadfly has pleaded no contest to spray-painting “666” on two gay Dallas landmarks in June 2014, but won’t serve any jail time.
Richard Sheridan (right), a frequent speaker at Dallas City Council meetings and well-known anti-LGBT bigot, spray-painted the Satanic digits on both the Legacy of Love Monument (above), which marks the entrance to the city’s gay entertainment district and is the site of many LGBT rallies, and the Cathedral of Hope (below), known as the world’s largest gay church.
In court papers, Sheridan has admitted the crimes were motivated by anti-gay bias. He is scheduled to be sentenced in April to two years of supervised probation as well as an unspecified amount of restitution, but will not be subject to fines or incarceration, The Dallas Morning News reports.
“I’m disappointed,” said Brenda Marks, president of the Oak Lawn Committee, the organization that created and maintains the Legacy of Love Monument. “This was a hate crime, and the fact we’re giving someone deferred adjudication for a hate crime is not good precedent.”
Read more: www.towleroad.com/2016/02/richard-sheridan/
A perennial candidate and political gadfly has pleaded no contest to spray-painting “666” on two gay Dallas landmarks in June 2014, but won’t serve any jail time.
Richard Sheridan (right), a frequent speaker at Dallas City Council meetings and well-known anti-LGBT bigot, spray-painted the Satanic digits on both the Legacy of Love Monument (above), which marks the entrance to the city’s gay entertainment district and is the site of many LGBT rallies, and the Cathedral of Hope (below), known as the world’s largest gay church.
In court papers, Sheridan has admitted the crimes were motivated by anti-gay bias. He is scheduled to be sentenced in April to two years of supervised probation as well as an unspecified amount of restitution, but will not be subject to fines or incarceration, The Dallas Morning News reports.
“I’m disappointed,” said Brenda Marks, president of the Oak Lawn Committee, the organization that created and maintains the Legacy of Love Monument. “This was a hate crime, and the fact we’re giving someone deferred adjudication for a hate crime is not good precedent.”
Read more: www.towleroad.com/2016/02/richard-sheridan/