Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.
Quotes about desecration (14 Quotes)
It's not like throwing a bone to the far right, it's like throwing a carcass, ... He's voted for school vouchers, against affirmative action, against abortion. He has voted for very punitive juvenile justice legislation. He has voted for a constitutional amendment (banning) flag desecration. He is the architect of efforts to give federal funding to religiously controlled institutions -- he doesn't seem to have much regard for separation of church and state.
Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
Whilst we respect and revere freedom of speech, we condemn needless desecration and injury of Islamic sensibilities, such as the recent cartoons misrepresenting and vilifying my ancestor, the Prophet.
For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.
The Congress shall have the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.
It's an example of what the whole of New Guinea was like 50,000 years ago when there was no hunting, no impact of logging and no environmental desecration. There're very few places left on earth where there has been so little human impact.
This command does not condone the mistreatment of enemy combatants or the desecration of their religious and cultural beliefs.
We have seen the extent of the desecration and destruction of the facilities of the finest institution in the country,
By approving the city of Chicago's O'Hare expansion plan, the FAA has done nothing less than authorize the desecration of St. Johannes Cemetery and promote the careless disregard for the First Amendment and federal religious freedom law.
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.