The flags belonging to millions of people and government agencies all over this country remain intact. In fact, the flag, itself, as a symbol, is not harmed by legally allowing some individuals to destroy their personally owned replicas of the flag. We actually desecrate the flag by passing this amendment. It is an insult to the flag for our country to become so oppressive, so dictatorial in suppressing dissenting viewpoints, that we remove constitutional protection from damaging one's privately owned replica of the flag. Also, for those of us who are concerned about the separation of church and state and the avoidance of elevating objects to an official level of being sacred in what is supposed to be an officially secular society, this amendment borders on a blasphemy law.
Desecration is a religious term.
If this becomes part of the Constitution, it means that our nation has officially elevated a secular symbol to the level of a sacred icon. Moreover, once we overcome the initial hurdle of amending the First Amendment for the first time, it will get easier and easier. Whenever the Supreme Court uses the First Amendment to protect a mode of expression that the majority finds distasteful, we will just amend the First Amendment to remove constitutional protection from that mode of expression. Soon, we will carve the First Amendment down to nothing. We don't need a First Amendment to protect that mode of expression which is non controversial.