[fla-left] [news] Anti-flag burning amendment passes House (fwd)

[Michael Hoover]

it may be lesser-of-two-evils (that may be evil-of-two-lessers given
Demublicans) that House spends time/effort on 'symbolic' stuff
like flag-burning and ten commandments given its record on taxes,
public assistance, corporations, trade, foreign policy, etc...
Michael Hoover


> Thursday June 24 8:02 PM ET
>
> House Backs Amendment To Protect Flag
> 
>                     By John Whitesides
> 
>                     WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives
> easily approved a constitutional amendment Thursday that
> would allow Congress to ban the burning or other
> desecration of the American flag, but the measure still appeared
> doomed in the Senate.
> 
>                     The House voted 305-124 to support the amendment,
> designed to overturn a 1989 Supreme Court decision that struck
> down state laws against flag desecration.
> 
>                     It was the third time since 1995 that the House had
>  mustered the two-thirds vote needed to approve the amendment, but
> earlier efforts sputtered in the Senate. Proponents said the measure
>  is still two or three votes short of the 67 needed to
> win Senate approval.