The fact that the flag represents hose things makes it even more fodder as a symbol of protest because it pushes buttons of people like you.
I don’t read dissenting opinions when I have fully formulated my opinions. I have understood the bill of rights since we were taught them by a catholic priest born in Ireland.
No ne is asking you to accept anything except people’s rights as your rights should be respected.
You may respect the constitution but you clearly don’t understand some of the basic precepts.
People like me??
I am not a priest and I was not born in Ireland but in America and I don’t need any foreigner to teach me my rights, especially somebody who was probably born much later then I was.
Society needs to have some respect for itself and the things it values or it becomes an association of self centered pigs who think they have a privilege to do anything that seizes them at the moment regardless of how impacts or insults others.
I was born in 1946, right after WW2 ended. I lived at a time when America still respected itself as it deserves to be respected because it is the best place that ever existed.
I saw it change, not for the better, thanks to people like you and wacko liberal jurists who feel people have a right to do anything they choose regardless of how it impacts society and other people.
During most of the lifetime of America, the American flag was an object of special reverence and respect and if anyone tried disgracing it in public, there would have been little need of a court to deal with the problem. We would have seen to it ourselves.
To my knowledge, nobody came down from Heaven in 1989 with a new revelation from God to the effect that it was now O.K. to allow pigs to insult the American flag with impugnity.