AuntiE wrote:
SCOTUS decision.
On June 21, 1989, a deeply divided United States Supreme Court upheld the rights of protesters to burn the American f**g in a landmark First Amendment decision.
In the controversial Texas v. Johnson case, the Court v**ed 5-4 in favor of Gregory Lee Johnson, the protester who had burned the f**g. Johnson’s actions, the majority argued, were symbolic speech, political in nature, and could be expressed even at the expense of our national symbol and to the affront of those who disagreed with him.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing a concurrence, spelled out his reasoning succinctly.
“The hard fact is that sometimes we must make decisions we do not like. We make them because they are right, right in the sense that the law and the Constitution, as we see them, compel the result,” Kennedy said. “And so great is our commitment to the process that, except in the rare case, we do not pause to express distaste for the result, perhaps for fear of undermining a valued principle that dictates the decision. This is one of those rare cases.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist dissented, along with John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Byron White. In his dissent, Rehnquist said that, “the f**g is not simply another ‘idea’ or ‘point of view’ competing for recognition in the marketplace of ideas.”
“I cannot agree that the First Amendment invalidates the Act of Congress, and the laws of 48 of the 50 States, which make criminal the public burning of the f**g,” he said.
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It's a very bad decision to let American F**g burn...Anerican F**g is a symbol of Freedom, something that our brave men and women of military sacrificed their lives for...I wish people who burn American F**g would be punished for it..