Of course some "conservatives" (including some I've never heard of... and those I have are avowed Never Trumper RINOs) are against this policy.
But what I'm against is legal hypocrisy.
If, on one hand, you can burn the American flag without penalty, then it's just as much "freedom of speech" to burn ANY flag, including those commemorating gender butchery and gay rights generally, among others.
We cannot, as a society, make the burning of the American flag sacrosanct, while the burning other symbols somehow becomes a criminal act.
That someone might be "offended" or some such insanity by the burning of, for example, a palestinian flag or LGBTQXYZ flag or what have you CANNOT be more offensive than burning the flag I served under and bled under and as such, there's no excuse for the double standard.
That math ain't mathing.
And you can't have it both ways.
I would remind everyone that abortion was also an allegedly "constitutionally protected" act... until it wasn't.
Free speech has one standard. And if you can go to jail for burning a gay rights flag, than stop whining about freedom of speech when it does not apply equally to ALL flags... including the American flag.
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