I, for one, would be tempted to join him.
Flag desecration ordinances are just stupid. It is cheap, tawdry partisan politics of the lowest order. I am ashamed that the Republican Party is wasting our time with this steaming pile yet another time. Don't they have anything better to do?
You forgot to mention that by outlawing it, flag-burning becomes a very potent symbol. Can you imagine the impact of a flag burning followed by arrests? At the moment the flag burns and the person doing it looks like an arse.
But if the cops storm in and arrest him then he is a victim of a repressive state and his (idiotic) point is given visual and physically impact as his person is then incarcerated.
The analogy to the desecration of the Koran is absolutely correct. I think America is powerful enough and its symbols strong enough to withstand a littel bit of desecration. Aparently that is not true of Islam.