verte76
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Irvine511 said:
i should just ignore this, but it's so out of line that i can't.
a flag is a symbol of a COUNTRY. countries are never sacred. and simply because it's disrespectful to burn a flag, that doesn't mean it should be illegal, and if, say, iraqi insurgents were holding US marines captive and burning the flag as a method of torture, then it would be every bit as wrong as the desecration of the Koran, and perhaps needlessly endanger the insurgents just as much as the desecration of the Koran -- and in fact all the torture US interrogators may or may not have done, or outsourced -- endangers US troops.
the day it becomes illegal to burn the US flag is the day i'll start burning flags in protest.
I agree. A flag is secular. It represents a secular institution, the state. It makes no sense to me to compare flags of any nation and scriptures of any religion or symbols of any religion. Remember when Sinead O'Connor did her infamous act with a picture of the Pope? She really pushed it. It was too much for even Madonna.