] Amendment supporters contend the flag deserves special
] protection as an important national symbol, while
] opponents, including Kerry, have argued that flag
] desecration can be punished under criminal statutes
] without tampering with the Constitution.

In other words, no one is interested in the idea that flag desecration is protected speech.

] The flag proposal, which would empower Congress to
] ban desecration of the U.S. flag, would be the second
] GOP-sponsored constitutional amendment to come to a vote
] in the Senate this year.

Except this one has passed the house, and has support from all 50 state legislatures. We are literally within a handful of Senate votes of flushing the first amendment down the toilet.

Think about it this way. These same people who don't have the basic intellectual capacity to parse their way through the implications of a flag amendment are making all of the important decisions concerning our foreign policy in the middle east, decisions which if made incorrectly will easily plunge the entire world into total war.

To me this is amendment is a symbol. It symbolizes the fact that our society does not know right from wrong. It we can pass it, we can do anything.

Kerry, Edwards and Daschle May Face Vote on Flag (washingtonpost.com)