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You’ve heard it said that our Constitution was never supposed to be a suicide pact.
The idea is that twisted or contrived logic can always be found such that the Constitution is used against itself, and that we should recognize and prevent this from happening.
This is what the idea of koran burning does. First—let’s get real. Nobody really feels that passionate about burning a koran. It just doesn’t have that kind of meaning or impact, not to a sincere patriotic American.
Think of it this way. Nothing man can write on paper or devise in his mind can ever match the real world. Whether it’s a poem, a mathematical equation, a piece of fiction or a system of laws. Just ask Robert Burns or Werner Heisenberg. Or the Founding Fathers. It’s that same old gap separating theory from reality.
So when this gap is encountered, our job is to use common sense. I’ll say it again—there is no genuine patriot who thinks burning a koran is worth the life of American troops.