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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: greenspirit who wrote (41893)6/26/1999 5:02:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Why is burning the flag ok but burning a cross illegal?

Michael, I am not a lawyer, so I really have no business answering this question.

But common sense suggests a major difference between the two. In fact, it suggests they have nothing in common except that both acts involve burning something.

1) Burning the flag is burning the symbol of a state, as a protest against a policy of policies of that state. Although not "okay," it is nevertheless not an act designed to threaten another individual or group of individuals, or to offer bodily harm to anyone.

2) Burning a cross, which is the symbol of a faith, is most definitely not aimed against that faith,. Rather, it is designed to threaten a particular individual (black, Catholic, whatever) or group of individuals. And it has often been followed by "bodily harm" to the targets of intimidation.

Joan
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