Why do cons think burning flags should be a crime but burning crosses is ok?

Question

Please explain?

For the record, both are still legal as long as it isn't done on anyone's front lawn.

Answer 1

They are archaic idiots...like living relics..cavemen...I burn things ahhhh...I make fire

Answer 2

Well, I'm not a 'con,' (more of a mod), but the flag is a symbol of the nation and many, many people have died for the freedoms represented by it. Crosses, on the other hand, are symbols of religion and the government is not in the business of protecting crosses. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure most of the 'cons' in the country would be against cross burning, which is illegal in some circumstances (i.e. public nuisance, etc.).

By the way, isn't it interesting that the shorthand for conservatives is the same as the shorthand for criminals (i.e. cons)?

Answer 3

I know some conservatives who think that burning a flag is protected. I know of less conservatives who would say the same thing about a cross.

I do not know of one conservative who would subscribe to both of your premises.


txlady...I do not know where you get your idea, but currently burning a flag is not only NOT a felony, but it is NOT a crime.

Answer 4

because, they have their whole lives wrapped up in worshiping idols, they don't have enough time to even consider the message when someone desecrates one of them.

But I think you have it wrong about all conservatives, because the types who you are speaking of are actually ultra-right-wing nuts, who think they are conservative, just because they get an NRA newsletter.

and burning a flag is not a felony, lets keep up with post 1940's reality please!

this might be another reason:
Southern Democrats are members of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the U.S. South. Initially they were the definitive pro-slavery wing of the party, opposed to both the anti-slavery, left-wing early Republicans and the more liberal Northern Democrats. After the loss of their territory in the United States Civil War and the Radical Republican-led Reconstruction which followed, Southern Democrats regrouped into various vigilante organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and the White League; eventually "Redemption" was finalized in the Compromise of 1877 and the ensuing institutionalization of Redeemers throughout the South. As the New Deal began to liberalize Democrats as a whole, Southern Democrats largely stayed as conservative as they had always been, with some even breaking off to form farther right-wing splinters like the Dixiecrats. But after the civil rights movement successfully challenged Jim Crow and other forms of institutionalized racism, and Democrats as a whole became the symbol of the mainstream left of the United States, the form, if not the content, of Southern Democratic politics began to change. Most Southern Democrats defected to the Republican Party at that point and helped accelerate the latter's transformation into a much more conservative organization.

Answer 5

Burning crosses is unlawful in each and every state in the U. S., you little troll of a moron! no person in the Republican occasion is burning crosses. you're a primary occasion of why Republicans see your left leaning innovations-set as a danger to society. you're too ignorant to be in fee of freedom.

Answer 6

I don't believe burning a flag should be a crime. I don't believe burning a cross should be a crime, if it belongs to you and you burn it on your property. I'm guessing that would lessen the severity of the message.

Answer 7

i dont know anyone who thinks burning crosses is ok besides, robert byrd (D-WV).

btw-when was the last major cross burning incident you can think of? maybe 25 years ago?

i dont know anyone of any background who defends this practice or any display of biggotry.

when was the last time liberal attorneys defended the "right" to burn the American flag? today maybe?

i dont know if it should be illegal, but the latter is a declaration of disdain and contempt for the country whose flag is burned.

just another case of liberals biting to hand that feeds them

Answer 8

Burning the flag is a felony. Burning a cross, unless it affects a person's life or property, is a piece of wood (usually). People burn wood everyday---the "cross burners" don't look on crosses as being sacred.

Answer 9

I have never met a Conservative who thinks burning crosses is ok.

Answer 10

Because cons are so dumb that they don't even know they have intellectual powers, much less the power to reason.

Answer 11

Burning Crosses is a Dem. thing...Ask Robert Byrd.
Chimpy, you been having a tough week bro...