As I write this entry, the Senate is preparing to vote on a constitutional amendment to ban the burning or desecration of the U.S. flag. Not long ago, it voted on legislation to "protect" marriage, by legally defining it as being between one man and one woman only.
This is what the Senate considers worthy of its time, while millions of Americans are unemployed/underemployed, our soldiers are dying on a fool's errand in Iraq, and other important, pressing issues too numerous to mention. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns!
While I personally would never burn a flag, because I consider doing so on the lines of burning books, I don't think we need an amendment protecting a symbol that is, after all, only a piece of cloth. While burning a flag is in bad taste and an extreme form of expressing one's opinion, doing so is simply a gesture. It hurts no real people, except maybe their feelings.
We've got real issues affecting millions of real people in the country to concern ourselves with. Let's concentrate on those and not be distracted by emotional hot button issues such as flag burning and "protecting" legal heterosexual monogamous marriage when we go to the polls in November.
Thoughts?
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