what, nobody noticed the Senate actually voted in favor of free speech and common sense?

[acroyear]

Well, 1 vote over 1/3rd did, anyways.

The other 1 vote less than 2/3rds disgusts me right now, but at least they've been shamed for a few months longer...

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[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

and I was taught that symbols are just that: symbols. They are symbolic of the real thing but never mistake it for the real thing.

this is the reason, at the heart of it, that the 10 Commandments banned idolatry - the people (as the golden calf showed) were too easily swayed to worshipping the thing they could see rather than the God they couldn't. the puritans were seeing the same thing happen in the Catholic-derived Anglican church: the emphasis on gold, perfumes, crosses everywhere - it was all "out there" so that nobody needed to look within where Jesus told us to look (many modern evangelical churches, particularly Jehova's Witnesses have this same problem - its as if Luke 19 never existed).

Patriotism should never be enforced by law, but that is precisely what this amendment would have done.

and finally, even the term "desecration" implies a sense of the "Sacred" and in itself is a gross violation of the establishment clause: it creates a grounds for worship of the state.

remember that other country that once had a flag-burning clause in its constitution? :)

[thewhitedragon.livejournal.com]

enough. enough. enough.

I said I find it disrespectful. My opinion. Laws are not based solely on my opinion. I want the freedom to be able to burn flags kept however, I find it distastful.