Flag Burning

One vote short! One vote and we would have been on our way to passing an amendment that took away liberties.
I am against flag burning however I feel that it is covered under freedom of speech. It is a very strong message and we might not like the message that it sends, but it is a very strong political message. I personally would not be part of any group that did burn the flag and I think it hurts their cause more by burning the flag than anything else that they can do.
It is not only that it almost passed, but that the Congress took a week to debate that and the law that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. They put aside discussing the Iraq war, balancing the budget, illegal wired taps and other important legislation just so the Republican could get some votes out of it and the thing that really gets me mad is that it works. There are people out there that actually vote for the Republicans because they do bring that to a vote. That there are people that the most important thing in their life is that homosexuals might marry or that a flag might get burnt maybe once a year. They don’t care if our men and women are getting killed around the world because of the Republican’s policies or that we have the largest deficit in history or the unemployment rates are going sky high or that interest rates are skyrocketing; no they worry about two men or two women might get married. And you know what? They vote!
They won only by a few thousand votes. This nation is so polarized that every vote counts, this fall go out and vote. Think about this, there are other vacancies that are going to appear on the Supreme Court, who do you want to get to pick those seats?