desecration

If you see someone as a martyr, then opposition to their movement is not merely disagreement, it is desecration.

The justices backed up that ruling a short time later, invalidating a federal law banning desecration of the flag that was passed in Johnson’s wake.

She said she wanted to "unleash the spirit of Lincolnshire" against "the planned desecration of our countryside".

"That original taking was illicit, was unethical, was a form of desecration," he told BBC News NI.

He had pleaded guilty to the 2024 arson attack which the church described as "an act of desecration and sacrilege".