Thread: Freedom, and isn't this the worst Congress ever?
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Old 06-28-2006, 07:53 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Maybe your not being able to understand congress is that you equate gay marriage and flag burning with freedoms. They are not.
Excuse me? Flag burning is purely a form of symbolic protest and is therefore protected under the free speech clause of the first amendment. Whether or not you see this is not important. The law sees this and the courts including the Supreme Court has upheld flag burning as a form of expression protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution numerous times.

And Jaxian nice post. I find it truely discusting that the flag burning ban failed by only one vote. It should have been a land-slide in turning it down, if the Congress was truely for freedom.
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