Peter Laaman at The Huffington Post put this anti-flag burning amendment in better persepective than I could have:
Let us turn instead to the language of Duke’s amendment: “The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.”
As a minister, I am interested in that word desecration because I cannot recall when the American flag was first made into a holy or sacred object — when it was sanctified. That old flag is grand, yes. Beautiful, yes. Venerable, yes. But not sacred. Not in this country, where, in the darkest days of World War II, Justice Robert Jackson wrote an eloquent statement for the Supreme Court on why the freedom the flag symbolizes must include the right to treat the flag itself as a mere symbol, not as a holy object. It was the Nazis — our enemies in 1943 — who sacralized their swastika and who outlawed its desecration. We knew better.
You didn’t just compare us to the Nazi’s, did you? Better get that apology ready before Bill Frist beats you with a dead cat.
Flags, fags, and 9/11. You’d think Chimpy was running for re-election again.
