No matter how much you hate it, flag burning should not be banned

Seems like republicans are masters of the obvious. They love to make Democrats take stands on issues that amounts to a hill of beans. The pledge of allegiance having "God" in it. Flag burning. In God We Trust on money. The war on Christmas. Gay marriage. Haven't we picked up on this yet? This is exactly the reason that I believe that we as Americans are the dumbest people on the planet. While our deficit skyrockets, while our skys burn, while our countrymen are dying in Iraq, what we choose to define our leadership is not leadership but pointless BULLSHIT! The moral majority are morons! First of all let me just say that burning the flag is discraceful, but then again so is the fact that more people vote in American Idol than in the presidential election. I see all these old men talking about how they were at DDay and people shouldn't burn the symbol they fought for. While the guy has a point, he also has to realize that he took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States, not the flag, and in that constitution, it guarantees the right to free speech. As was so eloquently states so many years ago. "I may not agree with what a man says, but I will defend to the death his right to say it." That same right is the same right that the Christian majority in this country uses to proclaim it is being persecuted every Christmas. That same right allows Neil Bortz to say that in Hurricane Katrina the poor deserved to be left behind to allow for the rescueing of the richer folk. That same right, allows Pat Robertson to advocate murdering a world leader, or Bill Oreilly to say San Francisco should be allowed to be attacked by terrorists. All reprehensible statements that probably pissed some people off. Statments that I do not agree with but statements that I am forced to live with due to our constitution. You see, republicans can't stand not having anything out of their reach. They will stop at nothing evidently to control what you do in your homes, whats in your mind, and peeking at your bank records and emails. Dont they have anything else to do? Like say RUN THE FUCKING COUNTRY!?