Flag Day

[Beemnseven]

So, burning or desecrating the flag should be perfectly legal...

Agree or disagree?

[Sammy Baugh Fan]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

So, burning or desecrating the flag should be perfectly legal...

Agree or disagree?

No, the law has been written on this question. It's not up for a vote.

Pack a lunch if you want to desecrate it around me bro cus there WILL be a fight. Period. If yer bigger I'll take an ass whopping for the flag but you will not go unchallenged around me.

Semper Fi
mike

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by Sammy Baugh Fan

No, the law has been written on this question. It's not up for a vote.

Pack a lunch if you want to desecrate it around me bro cus there WILL be a fight. Period. If yer bigger I'll take an ass whopping for the flag but you will not go unchallenged around me.

Semper Fi
mike

Is it your position then, that if someone states a political opinion that you disagree with that gives you the right to assault them?

[Beemnseven]

Oh come on.

With all the political discussions we've been having here lately, I thought this one would really take off...

[saden1]

Originally Posted by Sammy Baugh Fan

No, the law has been written on this question. It's not up for a vote.

Pack a lunch if you want to desecrate it around me bro cus there WILL be a fight. Period. If yer bigger I'll take an ass whopping for the flag but you will not go unchallenged around me.

Semper Fi
mike

There are no laws against flag burning that are enforceable because the Supreme Court ruled flag burning is constitutionally protected.

Supreme Court Strikes Down All Laws Banning Flag Desecration (1989): Outside the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Gregory Lee Johnson burned a flag in protest against President Ronald Reagan's policies. He was arrested under Texas' flag desecration statute. In its 5-4 ruling in Texas v. Johnson, the Supreme Court struck down flag desecration laws in 48 states by ruling that flag desecration is a constitutionally protected form of free speech.

Congress has made seven attempts to overrule the U.S. Supreme Court by passing a constitutional amendment making an exception to the First Amendment in order to allow the government to ban flag desecration. In 1990, when the amendment was first brought up, it failed to achieve the necessary two-thirds majority in the House. After the Republican congressional takeover of 1994, it has consistently passed the House but failed in the Senate.