My Soap Box

It's a flag. The great thing about flags is that if one gets burned, you can likely find several to take its place at the local grocery store. It's a symbol and burning it is an expression of speech. If the flag were so sacred, you wouldn't be able to readily find flag beachballs, magnetic flags, flag bikinis, etc. The only reason it is even an issue is that there are a few folks in our government willing to pander to the basest notions of 'patriotism'.