[ritewingwarrior]

While anyone who burns the US flag should immediately be deported (obviously they hate America), this is not the issue for our Congress to be wasting time on. The right is pandering to us for failing to do anything else substantial, particularly with immigration.

[longtermmemmory]

It is a smoke screen to obscure the federal marriage amendment.

[pissant]

But the Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that as distasteful or offensive as this kind of protest is, it is protected by the First Amendment. A year later, the high court overturned the federal Flag Protection Act.

This author is an idiot. It is PRECISELY BECAUSE of the SCOTUS' ruling that a constitutional amendment is required to overturn their retarded decision. the SCOTUS is NOT the law of the land, the people are.

[RonF]

There is no need for this amendment. Not because the Supremes did something wrong, but because they were right. If someone wants to buy an American flag and burn it on their own property, I can see no reason on Earth why I should have any say in the matter. Now, if it's not their flag, or if it's done in such a fashion as to be a public hazard due to fire, that can be handled by existing laws.

[L98Fiero]

We don't need a flag-burning amendment.

I like to know who the idiots and a-holes are. They like to advertize their presence and I like to avoid them at all cost. It's a good arrangement. Let's not mess with it.

[Past Your Eyes]

It's time to sh!t or get off the pot. There was a time when I was opposed to such an amendment. I've changed my mind in the past few years. This isn't going to cost us anything and it shows the SCOTUS that they DON'T have the final say, we do. Passing this amendment will please a large majority of Americans and the ones who don't like it can just suck it up and move on, just like so many of us have had to do since Roe v. Wade.
This is a way to see everyone's true colors.

[dfwgator]

In which case are you more likely to be prosecuted?

1. Burning an American flag.
2. Burning a Rainbow flag.

[sr4402]

I upheld our flag, before I burned it with my mouth and my comrades in the Senate in '71. Today all democrats support the burning of the flag. At least that we do not flip-flop on that matter.

/Sarcasm off

[Democratshavenobrains]

I don't like it when people talk on their cell phones on line at the airport. We should get a Constitutional Amendment about it.

/same logic as Flag Amendment