I’ll edit and say it’s not clear from the reporting whether or not the individuals who removed the flags were members of the church leadership or were acting on their own accord.
It’s also not clear if the day care owners had permission to place the flags or if it was forbidden. There isn’t a mention about if the owners were asked to remove the flags.
It’s fairly clear that the video the day care owners posted of the church members removing the flags has sparked some outrage in the community towards the church. The vandalism is most likely a result of that outrage.
I think it is a crime engaged in by some mentally disturbed individuals who need court mandated therapy. It isn’t unique to our sexual deviant community to have extremists within their ranks. Having said that, I have noticed over the past twenty-or-so years, that extremists seem to have assumed a leading role within the ranks of our sexual deviant community, e.g., look at the perverted influence they are now exercising over impressionable children in our public, and even private schools. The perverted sexual grooming and all that goes with it, including vandalizing a church, is more than just a hate crime.
“The content of the graffiti most likely is in support of the LGBTQ+ community,” Marblehead Police Chief Dennis King
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Pleasant Street Preschool, which had been renting space at Grace Community Church in Marblehead, is run by Mike Richmond and his partner Ryan Thompson, who placed Pride flags on the property to celebrate Pride month
Because it’s not clear if 1) the day care owners were breaking some rules by displaying the flags and 2) if the taking down of the flags was a decision by the church leadership or if it was just a church member who decided to remove the flags.