[RonF]

“Our Founding Fathers would have never imagined the need for an amendment to the Constitution like this,”

I'm sure he's right. They never imagined that anyone would think that people shouldn't have the right to do what they wanted to with their property.

Enforced reverence for national symbols is the mark of a tolitarian government, not a democratic republic.

[newgeezer]

Exactly!

I wonder where all our resident nationalist flag-wavers are hiding today...

[highball]

Enforced reverence for national symbols is the mark of a tolitarian government, not a democratic republic.

An excellent point, and one worth repeating. What these proposed amendments do to the Constitution is much more offensive than what a couple idiots do with their own flags.

[EternalVigilance]

Enforced reverence for national symbols is the mark of a tolitarian government, not a democratic republic.

If this amendment passed, you would still not have to reverence the flag. You could still despise it all you wish. You just wouldn't be legally allowed to desecrate it as a public act.