Alabama man arrested for placing flowers on fiancee's grave: 'Love is forever'

[packman]

An Alabama man handcuffed and jailed for putting flowers on his fiancee’s grave said all he wants is to be able to continue the honor the love of his life.

“I wish it was a story I was reading, not living,’’ said Winchester Hagans, a student studying education and theology and the son of Evangelist Rick Hagans.

Hagans’ fiancee, Hannah Ford, 26, was killed in a Jan. 17, 2021 car crash, hours after the newly engaged couple had visited their wedding venue. She died just a mile from her Montgomery home.

Just over one year later, Hagans, 31, was pulled over on a Sunday morning while on his way to preach at Purpose Baptist Church in the Auburn-Opelika area.

During that traffic stop that Hagans learned he had an outstanding warrant for misdemeanor criminal littering, a warrant obtained by Ford’s father, with whom the couple had a strained relationship.

https://www.al.com/news/2022/02/alabama-man-arrested-for-placing-flowers-on-fiances-grave-love-is-forever.html


Rather sad story with the mix - which rarely turns out well - of love , religion, and a toxic father

[LakeArenal]

1. Mean people suck.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. The Father Seems A Charming Guy

And by charming I mean a complete tool!

[LoisB]

3. What idiot judge signed that arrest warrant? What an asswipe father.

nt

[viva la]

4. I know... apples and oranges

But-- this guy gets arrested right then for "littering".

And it's been YEARS and Trump hasn't been arrested.

[Bettie]

5. Wow, what a piece of work that father is

but, I figured that when I saw that she had been homeschooled...given how the parent (they have nothing on the mom) behaved, my guess is religious home schooling.

[Otto_Harper]

6. Yes, because most major religions would teach us to act like A-hulls.

[Bettie]

7. Right wing religious people

tend to be authoritarian and controlling.

All the people I have ever known (and I've known many) who homeschool their children for religious reasons do so to keep them fully under their control and avoid allowing them to mix with other people.

And yes, a whole lot of right wing evangelicals do act like assholes. They use their religion as a bludgeon.

My opinion is my opinion, you don't have to agree.

[DFW]

9. Are we allowed to agree in case we really do? n/t

[Bettie]

10. Certainly!

That's always allowed...but people tend to be offended at my feelings about religion.

[DFW]

11. Ah, I see. I never noticed

I never follow that.

I just say, believe what you want to. Just make sure you accord me the same courtesy. (I know, I know, sounds like a quote from Hannibal Lecter).

[MustLoveBeagles]

8. How petty of her father

[cinematicdiversions]

12. Ironically her father needs to get some Jesus in his life. NT

[Initech]

13. Seriously, fundamentalist religion brings out the worst in people.