The First Amendment is one of the great founding pillars of our freedom. It has never been amended in over 200 years of our history, and now is not the time to start. Nothing has changed in the nine years since Congress first rejected a flag desecration amendment.
Flag burning remains exceedingly rare.
That is hardly the kind of serious and widespread problem in American life that justifies carving a hole in the heart of the First Amendment. The Constitution is not a billboard on which to plaster amendments as if they were bumper sticker slogans. In this Congress alone, over 10 Constitutional amendments have been introduced. With every new proposed amendment, we undermine and trivialize the Constitution and threaten to weaken its enduring strength. We all condemn the act of flag-burning.