Reply #55: Burning the Constitution bothers me. [View All]

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The flag is a piece of cloth. The sole reason we hold the flag dear is that it is a surrogate for the Constitution. What people need to understand is that it is utterly meaningless to protect a piece of cloth if one undermines that for which the piece of cloth stands.

I support the Constitution. If somebody burns a flag as a statement of displeasure for the USA, that's political speech. No damage has been done to anybody or anything other than cloth. But if one waters down the principles for which people have fought and died for to save a piece of cloth that is utterly repugnant to me.