[Man50D]

The Senate needed one more yes vote in 2006, but Bob Bennett (UT), Lincoln Chafee (RI), and Mitch McConnell (KY) all voted no.

You can thank the increasingly socialist Republicrat party.

[SunkenCiv]

Burning the flag is not enough for the hate America crew, they can’t stand to see the flag fly, at any place, at any time. Sometimes these characters wind up on the board of directors at some housing association, and forbid homeowners to fly the American flag on their property. Unfortunately, our fine feathered friends in congress are no better, they refuse to make English our official language and they refuse to pass the Flag Desecration Amendment which would prohibit burning or desecrating our flag.

[pnh102]

I oppose an anti-flag burning amendment, because while it is offensive and repulsive, it is still a form of free speech. I get very nervous when the government start to decide what constitutes "permitted speech" and what doesn't. Such an amendment would open a Pandora's Box for the regulation of, and ultimately the censorship of any sort of expression that the government deems "offensive." I don't think anyone here would support that.

On top of that, if this sort of amendment was to be proposed and ratified, the first thing every rebellious young punk is going to do is burn a flag just to "screw with the Man." Do we really want to be stuffing our prisons full of such people who would otherwise not be committing any criminal activity?