Posted on Oct 16, 2015
How do you feel about the American flag being modified?
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I'm all for freedom of speech, except perhaps the church that demonstrates at fallen Soldiers' funerals. Other than intentionally inflicting more unnecessary pain on the suffering surviving family members, things like this are actually understandable to me. I think this actually communicates something pretty clearly pro-American, at least in their eyes.
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False. If you want to make your own flag and trash it, that would be your 1st Amendment right.
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Its not an American flag now that its stripes have been modified, its a Gay pride flag that happens to have 50 stars on it, and I am only guessing here, that are intended to represent the 50 states.
Its not the flag I swore an oath to nor the flag that I think of when I think of America.
Its not the flag I swore an oath to nor the flag that I think of when I think of America.
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The flag cannot be modified and still represent the ideals represented unless the people choose new ideals.
What should concern us more is the perversion of those ideals and using the flag to represent them. The acts that cause people to hate us damage this symbol more than any physical change to it.
What should concern us more is the perversion of those ideals and using the flag to represent them. The acts that cause people to hate us damage this symbol more than any physical change to it.
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As a queer identified soldier. I must say I absolutely hate it when the pride flag and the American flag get combined. They should remain separate.
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ANY desecration of the American Flag such as turning it into clothing, modifying it for personal, organizational, or religious reasons should be against the law and are not acceptable. No bastardized representation of the flag should be acceptable. Free Speech be damned, there has to be a line. I don't care if it looks cute to someone to add things to it, it is a reprehensible act and morally wrong. Countless Americans have spilled blood to protect the American flag as it is. Freedom of speech does not give anyone the right to cheapen their deaths by making it more politically or socially correct. Citizens of this nation do not pledge allegiance to the modified flag of the times, they pledge to the Flag of the United States of America. If you feel so strongly against that US flag that you have to change it, you are more than welcome to leave the country to those that can respect it. There are 194 other countries that you can move to and try to change their flag to suit your personal wants, needs, and desires.
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