Let me start by making sure everyone knows what a freedom is. A freedom is anything someone can do. Both burning the flag and same-sex marriage are freedoms. Murder is a freedom. Voting is a freedom. Speaking is a freedom. Not every freedom should be allowed, but anyone who opposes flag burning is opposing a freedom, and there should be no question about that by anyone.

Burning the flag hurts no one. Anyone who would punch a flag burner is causing injurty to someone else, when that other person has caused no injury to you or anyone else.

If you deny someone the right to burn the flag, you deny that person the right to express his opinion about the country using his own property in a fashion which hurts no one. Why do you deny it? Because you find it insulting? Is that it?

If you think flag burning should be banned, then come out and say it: you aren't a fan of freedom, unless that freedom pleases you. Someone else can do what he wants only so long as you give it your stamp of approval. Anything that annoys you gets banned. Anything that insults you gets banned. You do not believe freedoms are held by the people, but that they are privledges to be granted only if they meet your approval. You care more about forcing people to be patriotic than about allowing them to have any belief without punishment. You would put a man in jail for hurting nothing more than his own property.

Or if you disagree, then explain it. Don't pick out a single one of my sentences and pick at it, answer these questions: how can you call yourself a supporter freedom when you believe burning the flag should be banned? And when do you believe a freedom should be banned?