DESECRATION AMENDMENT IN DAILY NEWSPAPERS

(**designates an op-ed piece)

Updated July 7, 2004

Alabama

a. Huntsville Times, “We Don’t Need a Flag Amendment” (12/14/95)

b. Tuscaloosa Times, “For Free Speech” (2/10/97)

c. Mobile Register, “Respect for U.S. Flag Means Respecting Freedom to Dissent” (5/25/97)

d. Montgomery Advertiser, “Free Speech First, Flag Desecration Amendment Unwise” (6/23/97)

e. Mobile Register, “The Flag Amendment May Send the Wrong Message” (3/29/98)

f. Tuscaloosa Times, “Don’t Restrict American Freedom” (4/26/98)**

Alaska

a. Anchorage Daily News, “Constitutional Measure is Overkill” (12/15/95)(with Political Cartoon)

Arizona

a. Mesa Tribune, “Mockery of Democracy” (3/5/95)

b. Arizona Republic, “Flag Day 1997; A Powerful Symbol” (6/14/97)

c. Arizona Republic, “Flag Day Coming: How Can We Tell?” (4/14/98)

d. Arizona Republic, “No to the Amendment” (7/6/98)

e. Arizona Republic, “Respect Flag, Kill Amendment; Preserve the Freedom to Be a Fool” (4/13/99)

f. Arizona Republic, “Flag Protections Would Chip Away at Precious Rights” (3/27/00)

g. Arizona Republic, “Flag Amendment Chooses Political Style over Freedom” (7/23/01)

Arkansas

a. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, “Passing an Amendment to Ban Flag Desecration Won’t Make Us Any Better” (6/26/97)

b. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, “The Flag is too Big to Burn, So Why the Amendment to Prevent Its Desecration?” (7/13/97)

California

a. San Francisco Chronicle, “The Flag Flap” (6/23/90)

b. San Francisco Chronicle, “The Rush to Rewrite the Constitution” (6/10/95)

c. Riverside Press Enterprise, “Flag this One” (6/11/95)

d. San Diego Union Tribune, “An Enduring Symbol” (6/14/95)

e. San Francisco Chronicle, “Protecting Old Glory: Bad Law for a Great Flag” (6/30/95)

f. San Diego Union Tribune, “Flag-Burning Ban: Protecting What it Symbolizes or the Symbol?” (12/14/95)

g. Pleasanton Tri-Valley Herald, “Feinstein’s Dangerous Vote on the Flag Amendment” (12/18/95)

h. Sacramento Bee, “Let Freedom Wave” (6/8/97)

i. Los Angeles Daily News, “Amendment Against Flag Burning is More Dangerous Than The Act Itself” (6/15/97)

j. Los Angeles Times, “Our Principles Must Come Before Our Symbols” (6/16/97)**

k. Los Angeles Times, “Free Speech is Not For Burning” (6/17/97)

l. Redding Record Searchlight, “Better to Burn the Flag Than Singe Constitution” (3/31/98)

m. Haywood Daily Review, “Flag Amendment Threatens Freedom” (5/1/98)

n. Oakland Tribune, “Flag Amendment Threatens Freedom” (5/1/98)

o. Fremont Argus, “Flag Amendment Threatens Freedom” (5/1/98)

p. San Mateo County Times, “Flag Amendment Threatens Freedom” (5/1/98)

q. Pleasanton Tri-Valley Herald, “Flag Amendment Threatens Freedom” (5/1/98)

r. Alameda Times-Star, “Flag Amendment Threatens Freedom” (5/1/98)**

q. Palm Springs Desert Sun, “Right to Trash Flag Must Remain” (6/11/98)

r. San Francisco Examiner, “Be Careful How You Wear Your Flag” (6/30/98)

s. Sacramento Bee, “Flags and Freedoms” (7/6/98)

t. San Jose Mercury News, “The Price of Free Speech” (7/8/98)

u. Los Angeles Daily News, “Old Glory is Fireproof” (7/10/98)

v. Los Angeles Times, “The U.S. Constitution Says We All Have to Live With Being Offended” (07/18/01)**

w. Orange County Register, “The Constitution vs. Flag-Burning Ban” (7/23/01)

x. Sacramento Bee, “For Vets, Flag Burning’s Not the Most Important Issue (3/14/04)**

Colorado

a. Denver Post, “Be Cautious, Mr. President” (06/28/89)

b. Longmont Daily Times-Call, “Fly Flags with Pride” (07/04/89)

c. Longmont Daily Times-Call, “The Flag is Precious, But Freedom is Vital” (06/16/90)

d. Denver Post, “Flag Burning Issue Isn’t One of Our Nation’s Biggest Problems” (1995--Date Unknown)

e. Denver Post, “Let the Jerks Identify Themselves” (12/13/95)

f. Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, “Principle, Not Symbolism, Wins with Flag-Burning Vote” (12/14/95)

g. Denver Post, “Our Flag Stands for Freedom” (1/22/97)

h. Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, “Long May She Wave” (1/24/97)

i. Denver Post, “Don’t Tread on Rights” (3/28/97)

j. Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, “Flouting the Flag” (4/8/97)

k. Denver Post, “Fold the Flag Amendment” (6/17/97)

l. Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, “Insult to Injury” (4/17/98)

m. Rocky Mountain News, “Proposal Should Be a Red Flag To All” (6/2/98)**

n. Rocky Mountain News, “Don’t Desecrate Freedom” (3/25/99)

o. Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, “Shielding the Flag” (2/19/00)

p. Denver Post, “Inviolate Rights” (3/3/00)

q. Denver Post, “Flag Amendment Should Die” (6/25/01)

r. Fort Collins Coloradoan, “Flag Protection Amendment Isn’t Needed” (6/3/03)

q. Denver Post, “Playing ‘Gotcha” with the Flag Amendment” 9/20/04

Connecticut

a. Hartford Courant, “The Flag, The Constitution, and Senator Dodd” (6/20/90)

b. New London Day, “Fighting Imaginary Wars” (6/27/90)

c. Danbury News-Times, “Amending Constitution Won’t Protect this Symbol of America” (12/12/95)

d. Danbury News-Times, “The Flag” (1/24/97)

e. Hartford Courant, “Flag-Wavers Attack an Imaginary Problem” (6/23/97)

f. Danbury News-Times, “Lieberman’s Resolution” (7/1/97)

g. Meriden Record-Journal, “Let’s Keep the Bill of Rights” (5/24/98)

h. Hartford Courant, “The Best Way to Honor the Flag” (7/3/98)

i. Hartford Courant, “Leave First Amendment Alone” (4/16/99)

District of Columbia

a. Washington Post, “Only Five Lawyers” (6/19/90)

b. Washington Post, Political Cartoon (6/19/90)**

c. Washington Post, “One Issue the Democrats Did Right” (7/02/90)**

d. Washington Post, “Desecrating Principle for the Sake of a Symbol” (6/14/95)**

e. Washington Post, “How to Desecrate the Flag” (6/26/95)**

f. Washington Post, “A Flag Amendment? No” (by Sen. McConnell) (12/5/95)**

g. Washington Times, “Using the Flag As Political Protest” (3/31/98)**

h. Washington Post, “Not a Burning Issue” (7/5/98)

i. Washington Post, Political Cartoon by Herblock (7/9/98)**

j. Washington Post, Political Cartoon by Herblock (7/23/98)**

k. Washington Post, “Legislating Patriotism” (3/13/99)**

l. Washington Post, “Flag Burning -- Again” (5/3/99)

m. Washington Post, “Free to Be Disorderly” (6/28/99)**

n. Washington Post, “Burn this Amendment” (3/26/00)

o. Washington Times, “Flag Amendment Should Die” (6/8/01)**

p. Washington Times, “Freedom to Burn Shows Freedom to Live” (6/25/01)

q. Washington Post, “Flagging Interest” (7/22/01)**

r. Washington Post, “Burnt Out” (5/13/03)

s. Washington Post, “Mr. Bush and the Flag” (8/31/03)

t. Washington Post, “Flag (Burning) Day” (6/14/04)

Florida

a. Pensacola News Journal, “Our Nation, the U.S. Flag Big Enough to Bear Dissent” (6/14/90)

b. Pensacola News Journal, “Anti-Flag-Amendment Vote was Best for Flag, Country” (6/29/90)

c. Pensacola News Journal, “Americans Owe Debt to Jefferson for Words of Independence and Freedom” (7/01/90)

d. Palm Beach Post, “Six Ways to Desecrate the Flag” (Political Cartoon) (1995--Date Unknown)

e. Boca Raton News, “Avoid Slippery Slope of Constitution Change” (6/21/95)

f. Sarasota Herald Tribune, “Don’t Tread on the Right to Free Speech” (10/10/95)**

g. Northwest Florida Daily News, “Records Bill is OK; Flag Measure Wasn’t” (12/14/95)

h. Sarasota Herald-Tribune, “In Defense of Freedom” (12/15/95)

i. Fort Walton Beach Daily Times, “Time to Take Down the Flag Amendment” (1/15/97)

j. Sarasota Herald-Tribune, “Don’t Let an Amendment Fly” (by then-American Society of Newspaper Editors President Robert Giles) (1/18/97)**

k. Tampa Tribune, “Jingoistic Flag Burning Amendment” (2/14/97)

l. Marion Star Banner, “Free Speech and the Flag” (3/29/97)

m. St. Petersburg Times, “Don’t Desecrate Our Freedom” (5/11/97)

n. Jacksonville Times-Union, “No Need for Amendment” (5/27/97)

o. Orlando Sentinel, “Put Flag Issue to Rest” (6/12/97)

p. Palm Beach Post, “Senate Should Burn the U.S. Flag Amendment” (6/16/97)**

q. Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, “‘Patriots’ Attacking Our Basic Freedom” (6/17/97)**

r. Palm Beach Post, “Flag Newt’s Standard” (6/18/97)

s. Tampa Tribune, “Old Glory Waves Over All Our Freedoms” (6/24/97)

t. Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, “A Rush To Amend” (7/2/97)**

u. Tampa Tribune, “Kill Proposed Flag Burning Measure” (3/22/98)

v. St. Petersburg Times, “Protecting Flags, Assaulting Freedom” (4/18/98)**

w. St. Petersburg Times, “Old Glory and Freedom” (7/4/98)

x. Orlando Sentinel, “Our Views Let Freedom Wave” (7/4/98)

y. Tampa Tribune, “Flag Burning is in First Amendment” (7/7/98)

z. St. Petersburg Times, “Ralph Lauren, Flag Desecrator?” (7/15/98)

aa. St. Petersburg Times, “Why I Burned a Flag” (8/9/98)**

bb. St. Petersburg Times, “A Better Way to Honor Our Flag” (3/28/99)

cc. St. Petersburg Times, “Freedom Before the Flag” (5/9/99)

dd. Tampa Tribune, “Old Glory and the Bill of Rights” (2/19/00)

ee. St. Petersburg Times, "Don't Join the Oppressors" (3/5/00)

ff. Florida Times Union, “America Stars and Stripes” (6/4/01)

gg. Tampa Tribune, “Why Desecrate the Constitution?” (6/6/01)

hh. St. Petersburg Times, “Freedom to Burn Our Flag” (6/13/01)

ii. Orlando Sentinel, “Wave Flag of Freedom” (7/20/01)

jj. Sarasota Herald Tribune, “Flags to Save, Money to Burn” (8/21/01)

kk. Tampa Tribune, “Yet Another Flag-Burning Measure” (5/10/03)

Florida (continued)

ll. St. Petersburg Times, “Freedom to Burn” (9/12/04)

Georgia

a. Macon Telegraph and News, “A Touch of Sanity” (02/07/90)

b. Atlanta Journal, “Amendment du Jour” (5/17/97)

c. Atlanta Journal, “Flag-Burning Ban is Anti-American (8/25/98)

d. Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, “To Respect Flag is to Defend What It Stands For” (9/27/98)

e. Atlanta Journal, “Flag Stands for Even Ugly Expression” (6/14/99)

f. Atlanta Journal, “Star Spangled Gag Order” (3/24/00)

g. Atlanta Journal, “Outlawing Flag Burning Robs Banner of Meaning” (7/22/01)

Hawaii

a. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, “Court Rules Fairly on Flag and Guard” (6/12/90)

b. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, “The Flag’s Still There” (6/22/90)

Idaho

a. Lewiston Morning Tribune, “Look! Look! They’re Burning the Flag Everywhere” (6/13/97)

b. Lewiston Morning Tribune, “Another Nation Shows What To Do With Flag Burners” (6/17/97)

c. Lewiston Morning Tribune, “Next July 4, Will Flag Waive O’er Land of Less Free?” (7/4/97)

d. Idaho Falls Post Register, “Entering a Brave New World” (1/18/98)**

e. Lewiston Morning Tribune, “Senate Debates Desecrating our Primary Freedom” (5/10/98)

f. Lewiston Morning Tribune, “Is America too Touchy to Endure Obnoxious Speech? (7/4/98)

Illinois

a. Alton Telegraph, “Don’t Let Flag Clamor Obscure Key, Less Noise Election Issues” (6/12/90)

b. Chicago Tribune, “Crazy for the Red, White and Blue” (2/26/95)

c. Chicago Tribune, “How to Honor the Stars and Stripes” (7/05/95)

d. Peoria Journal Star, “The Threat to the Flag, It Comes Not From a Few” (11/2/95)

e. Chicago Tribune, “Constitutional Tinkering Becomes a Trivial Pursuit” (1/23/97)**

f. Chicago Tribune, “Burning to Amend the Constitution” (2/16/97)

g. Chicago Tribune, “Flag Burning Ban Only Sounds Good” (3/13/97) (by ABA President N. Lee Cooper)**

h. Chicago Tribune, “There’s No Need for An Amendment Prohibiting Flag Desecration” (5/15/97)

i. Chicago Tribune, “Turning Liberty Inside Out” (6/12/97)

j. Chicago Sun-Times, “Coercion Won’t Create Respect for Old Glory” (6/15/97)

k. Chicago Sun-Times, “Flag Flap Does Not Fly” (6/15/97)

l. Chicago Tribune, “Independent Thought; Hands Off the First Amendment” (7/4/97)**

m. Rockford Register Star, “Desecrating Our Liberties (4/28/98)

n. Peoria Journal-Star, “‘In America We Are Not Afraid of Freedom’” (7/6/98)

o. Chicago Tribune, “Old Glory Needs No Protection” (7/7/98)

p. Chicago Sun-Times, “Flag Amendment is Un-American” (7/13/98)**

q. Chicago Tribune, “The Flag Amendment Returns” (4/25/99)

r. Chicago Tribune, “Going Over All of the Bad Reasons for a Flag Amendment” (7/19/01)

Indiana

a. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, “The Burning Flag Debate” (Political Cartoon) (6/21/90)**

b. South Bend Tribune, “Flag Desecration Amendment Would be a Big Mistake If Only Walter Lanz Could See Them” (6/11/95)

c. Gary Post-Tribune, “Waving For Freedom” (6/21/95)

d. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, “Real Desecration” (6/30/95)

e. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, “Rights Defenders” (12/14/95) (with Political Cartoon)

f. Gary Post-Tribune, “Saved, But Barely” (12/15/95)

g. Bloomington Herald Times, “Amendment Not Needed to Protect Flag” (1/25/97)

h. Indianapolis News, “Problem with Flag Elusive” (2/25/97)**

i. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, “Offensive Speech” (3/19/98)

j. Indianapolis News, “Don’t Burn the Bill of Rights” (6/29/98)**

k. Michigan City News-Dispatch, “There Will Be No Parades Tomorrow” (7/9/98)

l. Indianapolis News, “For Which It Stands” (7/14/98)

m. South Bend Tribune, “Flag Amendment Would Diminish Freedom” (3/28/99)

n. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, “Flag Flames -- Ban Might Have Reverse Effect” (5/9/99)

o. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, “Lugar, Bayh Would Bury Free Speech in the Flag” (3/31/00)

p. Indianapolis Star, “’Protecting’ vs. Respecting the Flag” (7/17/01)

Iowa

a. Ames Daily Tribune, “Flag Decision Was a Victory for Freedom” (10/30/89)

b. Ames Daily Tribune, “Flag Art Challenges, Stimulates Thought” (12/08/89)

c. Ames Daily Tribune, “Flag Amendment Would Limit Speech” (3/13/90)

d. Ames Daily Tribune, “The Right Decision on Flag Art” (4/03/90)

e. Ames Daily Tribune, “Flag Desecration: A Local Issue?” (6/14/90)

f. Ames Daily Tribune, “GOP Flag Attack Neglects Own Foes” (6/21/90)

g. Des Moines Register, “Reckless Plan on Flag Burning” (6/21/90)**

h. Ames Daily Tribune, “It’s Better to Burn a Flag than to Bury a Principle” (1/16/97)**

i. Dubuque Telegraph Herald, “Legislated for Your Protection” (1/29/97)

j. Des Moines Register, “Courage and the Flag” (6/14/98)

k. Ames Daily Tribune, “On Flag Day” (6/15/98)

l. Dubuque Telegraph Herald, “Flag Amendment Would Burn Constitution” (6/13/04)

Kansas

a. Kansas Press, “Flag Burning Amendment Weakens Free Speech” (6/20/90)**

b. Manhattan Mercury, “A Poor Litmus Test for Patriotism” (12/13/95)

c. Parsons Sun, “Make it Voluntary” (10/3/97)

d. Parsons Sun, “Waving Old Glory” (3/16/98)

e. Manhattan Mercury, “Limiting Freedom Doesn’t Honor Flag” (7/5/98)

f. Manhattan Mercury, “America Doesn’t Need Flag Amendment” (7/27/98)**

g. Manhattan Mercury, “Lost Freedoms Hard to Restore” (3/28/00)

Kentucky

a. Kentucky Post, “It’s What Our Flag Stands for that Matters Most” (7/15/95)

b. Louisville Courier-Journal, “Guts and Old Glory” (12/15/95)

c. Louisville Courier-Journal, “Keeper of the Flame” (2/7/98)

d. Louisville Courier-Journal, “Preserving Freedom” (6/14/98)

e. Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, “Keep Up the Good Fight” (2/29/00)

f. Lexington Herald-Leader, “Good Mitch, Bad Mitch” (3/31/00)

g. Louisville Courier-Journal, “Standing for Freedom” (7/19/01)

Louisiana

a. Baton Rouge Advocate, “Flag Amendment is Not Necessary” (1/22/97)

b. Shreveport Journal, “Flag-Waving” (4/29/97)

c. New Orleans Times-Picayune, “Flag Burning Issue Strictly Politics” (7/4/97)**

d. Baton Rouge Advocate, “Senate Should Kill Flag Amendment” (7/7/97)

e. Baton Rouge Advocate, “Reject Proposal on Flag-Burning” (May 6, 1999)

f. Baton Rouge Advocate, “Flag Amendment Threatens Freedom” (7/19/01)

Maine

a. Waterville Morning Sentinel, “Bill to Protect the Flag Would Only Impair Basic Liberties” (4/1/97)**

b. Bangor Daily News, “The Flag of Freedom” (5/29/97)

c. Waterville Morning Sentinel, “Flag Protection May Harm” (6/15/97)

d. Portland Press Herald, “Flag-Burning Amendment Runs Counter to American Tradition (7/21/01)

e. Bangor Daily News, “Burning Flag Remains a Nonissue” (6/5/03)

Maryland

a. Capital Times, “Honor Flag, Tackle Issues” (6/12/95)

b. Baltimore Sun, “Assault on the Constitution; Amendment Frenzy: Unworthy Attempts to Change Nation’s Charter Should Be Resisted” (5/12/97)

c. Baltimore Sun, “Don’t Amend the Bill of Rights” (7/12/97)

d. Baltimore Sun, “Buring Issue; Constitutional Ban: Flag Desecration Amendment Would Chip Away at Free-Speech Rights” (4/10/99)

e. Montgomery Journal, “Flag Wavers” (6/4/01)

Massachusetts

a. Quincy Patriot-Ledger, “How to Honor Old Glory” (6/14/95)

b. Quincy Patriot-Ledger, “Flag-Burning Amendment Infringes on Freedom” (10/08/95)

c. Quincy Patriot-Ledger, “Symbol of Freedoms” (10/10/95)

d. Boston Globe, “Demeaning the Flag” (10/14/95)

e. Quincy Patriot-Ledger, “The Flag Still Waves” (12/14/95)**

f. Quincy Patriot-Ledger, “Preserving Free Speech” (12/14/95)

g. Quincy Patriot-Ledger, “Flag Burning May Be Appalling, But Free Speech is Absolute” (2/12/97)

h. Springfield Union-News Sunday Republican, “Don’t Torch The Flag--Or Constitution” (2/23/97)

i. Boston Herald, “Congress: Master of Symbolism” (6/22/97)

j. Boston Herald, “Flag Amendment Just Not Needed” (2/9/98)**

k. Boston Globe, “Flag Waving” (6/26/98)

l. Boston Herald, “Flags Don’t Have Rights” (7/12/98)

m. Framingham MetroWest Daily News, “Freedom and the Flag: Flag Protection Amendment is Unnecessary, Unprincipled” (3/27/00)

n. Boston Herald, “Flag Waving’s Too Easy” (7/19/01)

Michigan

a. Flint Journal, “Flag Burning Ban Wrong” (6/14/90)

b. Muskegon Chronicle, “Flag Burning Flap Diverting Attention from Bigger Game” (6/19/90)

c. Muskegon Chronicle, “Flag Burning is a Lot of Hot Air” (6/19/90)

d. Detroit News, “Save the Constitution” (10/14/95)

e. Muskegon Chronicle, “Assault on Constitution Beaten Back--Barely” (12/15/95)

f. Detroit News, “Don’t Amend Bill of Rights to Protect Flag” (1/19/97)(By then-American Society of Newspaper Editors President Robert Giles)

g. Detroit Free Press, “Honor the Flag Best by Protecting Freedoms” (4/19/98)

h. Detroit Free Press, “Don’t Turn Flag Burning into Federal Offense” (5/11/98)**

i. Grand Rapids Press, “Freedom Before the Flag...” (7/3/98)

j. Detroit News, “Honor Old Glory by Defeating Flag-Burning Amendment” (5/8/03)

Minnesota

a. Minneapolis Star Tribune, “In Due Respect to Old Glory” (6/13/97)**

b. Minneapolis Star Tribune, “Congress Shouldn’t Mess with the Constitution” (6/29/98)**

c. Minneapolis Star Tribune, “Free To Disagree” (3/22/00)

d. Minneapolis Star Tribune, “Protects Symbol, Trims Real Thing” (7/21/01)

Mississippi

a. Biloxi Sun Herald, “It is Our Freedom, Not Our Flag, That Needs Protecting” (5/26/98)

Missouri

a. West Plains Daily Quill, “Constitution Preferable to Ten Commandments?” (6/13/90)

b. West Plains Daily Quill, “Flag and Fighting Words” (6/20/90)**

c. West Plains Daily Quill, “Burning Issue Won’t Save First Amendment” (6/20/90)**

d. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Flag Amendment is Retreat on Liberty” (9/24/95)

e. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Don’t Desecrate the Constitution” (12/12/95)

f. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “It’s Still a Grand Old Flag” (12/14/95)

g. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Amendments That Should Go Nowhere” (5/27/97)

h. Kansas City Star, “Incinerate Flag-Burning Proposal” (8/2/98)

i. Springfield News Leader, “Torch Constitution or Burn the Flag” (9/9/04)

Nevada

a. Mason Valley News, “Don’t Tamper with the First Amendment” (6/23/95)**

b. Las Vegas Review-Journal, “Flag Amendment a Slap at Vets” (5/29/97)**

c. Las Vegas Review-Journal, “What a Flag-burning Ban Really Means (4/28/99)**

d. Las Vegas Review-Journal, “Torching the Constitution” (5/5/99)

e. Las Vegas Review-Journal, “Go With Head, Not Heart, on Flag Burning” (5/9/99)

f. Las Vegas Review-Journal, “The Right Thing” (3/30/00)

g. Las Vegas Review Journal, “A Childish Game of ‘Gotcha’” (9/15/04)

New Jersey

a. Bridgewater Courier-News, “Say No to a Flag Burning Law” (10/9/95)

b. Trenton Times, “Close Call for the Bill of Rights” (12/14/95)

c. Atlantic City Press, “Another Close Call” (12/15/95)

d. Asbury Park Press, “Honoring the Flag” (6/14/97)

e. Bergen Record, “Old Glory Will Still Wave Without an Amendment” (6/22/97)**

f. Asbury Park Press, “For Which It Stands” (5/24/98)

g. Newark Star Ledger, “Unflagging Foolishness” (5/17/03)

New Mexico

a. Albequerque Journal, “Protect Freedoms That Flag Symbolizes” (6/14/97)

b. Albequerque Journal, “Don’t Put Love of Flag Ahead of Liberty” (7/21/01)

New York

a. Buffalo News, Political Cartoon, (7/02/89)**

b. Syracuse Post-Standard, “Taking the Rap” (6/13/90)

c. New York Times, “Drop the Flag Issue” (6/15/90)**

d. New York Times, “Why the Flag Waiving?” (6/15/90)**

e. Syracuse Post-Standard, “Patriotic Gore” (6/21/90)

f. Rockland Journal News, “Don’t Hoist the First Amendment” (10/16/95)

g. New York Times, “The Flag-Wavers Return” (12/07/95)

h. Albany Times Union, “Let Old Glory Fly Free” (12/18/95)

i. New York Times, “Beauty of the Flag” (12/20/95)

j. Syracuse Herald Journal, “The Best Way to Respect the Flag” (1/17/97)

k. Canandaigua Daily Messenger, “Wrapped in the Flag” (4/14/97)

l. New York Newsday, “In Flag Debate, A Lazy Congress Shows Its Stripes” (5/19/97)**

m. New York Times, “Waiving Our Freedom” (6/16/97)**

n. Buffalo News, “Flag Burning Ban Insults Constitution” (6/18/97)

o. New York Daily News, “It’s Time for Pols to Flag the Real Burning Issues” (7/3/97)**

p. Albany Times Union, “Flag Burning Presents No ‘Clear and Present Danger’” (7/15/97)**

q. The New Yorker, Political Cartoon, (10/6/97)**

r. Syracuse Herald Journal, “Protect the Freedom to Disagree” (4/17/98)

s. New York Times, “Amendment Fever” (6/25/98)

t. Rome Daily Sentinel, “For Which It Stands...” (7/3/98)

u. Buffalo News, “Constitutional Advice: Take 2 and Hit to Right” (7/11/98)

v. New York Daily News, “Proposed Ban on Flag Burning Doesn’t Fly Right” (7/16/98)**

w. Albany Times Union, “The Flag and Free Speech” (7/7/98)

x Kingston Daily Freeman, “Flag Amendment” (5/4/99)

y. Buffalo News, “Of Freedom and Flags” (2/26/00)

z. New York Times, “The Meaning of That Star-Spangled Hard Hat” (11/9/01)

aa. Oneonta Daily Star, “Flag-Burning Amendment Not Needed” (5/7/03)

bb. Buffalo News, “Honoring the Flag” (5/30/03)

North Carolina

a. Raleigh News and Observer, “Respect What Flag Represents” (6/14/97)**

b. Chapel Hill Herald, “Rally ‘Round the Flag” (6/14/97)

c. Greensboro News & Record, “Set a Match to Proposed Flag Burning Amendment” (6/18/97)

d. Durham Herald Sun, “Flag Burning Bill” (6/22/97)

e. Greensboro News & Record, “Flag Amendment is Still a Bad Idea” (7/6/97)

f. High Point Enterprise, “Patriots Confuse the Flag With Ideals it Represents” (5/1/98)

g. Raleigh News and Observer, “Flag-Burning Fools Can’t Harm a Symbol” (6/24/98)**

h. Greensboro News & Record, “Burning Flag is Bad, But Not a Crime” (7/2/98)

North Dakota

a. Grand Forks Herald, “Senators Play Both Sides of Flag Issue” (12/8/95)

b. Grand Forks Herald, “Amendment Could Harm Flag” (3/22/98)

c. Fargo Forum, “Amending the Constitution is Serious Business” (7/11/98)

d. Dickinson Press, “Even if it Hurts” (7/11/98)

e. Minot Daily News, “Desecrating the Flag is a Contemptable Act....” (7/11/98)

f. Fargo Forum, “Senators Made Right Call on Flag Burning” (5/9/99)

Ohio

a. Dayton Daily News, “Glenn’s Opposition to Flag Bill is Defense of Americans’ Freedom” (12/12/95)

b. Akron Beacon Journal, “Flag and Country” (12/14/95)

c. Dayton Daily News, “Flag Bill Failed; No Sign of Smoke” (12/15/95)

d. Dayton Daily News, “Don’t Trivialize Constitution” (1/30/97)

e. Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Symbolism v. Substance” (6/13/97)

f. Cincinnati Enquirer, “Liberty Unflagging” (6/18/97)

g. Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Flag’s Symbolism Survives Insult” (5/27/98)**

h. Dayton Daily News, “Put Constitution Before Symbols” (6/19/98)**

i. Dayton Daily News, “First Amendment Belongs to More Than Just Media” (8/2/98)

j. Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Good Intentions, Bad Amendment” (2/28/00)

k. Cleveland Plain Dealer, “The Founders Knew Better” (3/25/00)

l. Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Burning the Bill of Rights” (7/11/01)

m. Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Save Constitution, Not Flag” (5/13/03)

n. Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Flag Raised (Again) as Cheap Political Issue (5/14/03)**

o. Cleveland Plain Dealer, “For Vets, Flag Burning’s Not the Most Important Issue” (3/11/04)**

Oklahoma

a. Tulsa World, “Principles Before Symbols” (6/20/97)**

b. Tulsa World, “Waving the Flag Amendment or Not, Flag Will Still be There” (6/27/98)

Oregon

a. Portland Oregonian, “Stars-and-Stripes Diversion” (10/14/95)

b. Portland Oregonian, “The Flag’s Just Fine” (2/17/97)

c. Bend Bulletin, “Symbolism? The Flag Stands for Much More” (4/12/98)

d. Portland Oregonian, “Liberty Over Symbols” (7/5/98)

e. Eugene Register-Guard, “No Compulsory Patriotism” (7/6/98)

Pennsylvania

a. Allentown Morning Call, “Don’t Make Flag a Political Football” (6/12/90)

b. York Daily Record, “Flag Must Continue to Fly for Freedom” (03/14/95)

c. DuBois Courier-Express, “Protect the Flag or Free Speech?” (10/11/95)

d. Philadelphia Inquirer, “Honor the Flag--Senator Specter has a Chance to Do the Right Thing” (12/12/95)

e. Erie Daily Times, “A Narrow Victory for Freedom” (12/14/95)

f. Philadelphia Daily News, “On Dignity” (12/15/95)

g. York Daily Record, “White Thorns and Roses” (12/18/95)

h. Allentown Morning Call, “To Protect Flag, Don’t Limit Liberty” (5/19/97)

i. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Resist the Itch; Congress Should Reject Unneeded Changes to Constitution” (6/5/97)

j. Erie Daily Times, “Oppose Flag Burning Amendment” (4/13/98)

k. Allentown Morning Call, “Honor What Nation’s Flag Represents” (6/2/98)

l. Lansdale Reporter, “Flag Burning Amendment is Dangerous” (6/13/98)

m. York Daily Record, “Don’t Desecrate the Constitution” (7/3/98)

n. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Burning Issue--Flag Desecration Isn’t A Threat; This Amendment Is” (7/7/98)

o. Delaware County Daily Times, “Flag Amendment’s Intolerable Price” (7/13/98)

p. Philadelphia Daily News, “Flag‑Burning Amendment is Foolish” (8/5/98)

q. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “No Rescue Required; The Flag Will Fly Proudly Without an Amendment” (3/27/99)

r. Allentown Morning Call, “Don’t Diminish Our Free Speech” (3/29/99)

s. Harrisburg Patriot, “Keep Freedom Flying” (2/22/00)

t. Lancaster Sunday News, “A Lofty Cause” (3/12/00)

u. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Not a Burning Issue” (7/20/01)

Rhode Island

a. Newport Daily News, “Basic Rights Rate Priority Over Symbols” (7/3/98)

b. Newport Daily News, “Flag Desecration Act a Threat to Freedom’s Very Cornerstone (7/3/98)**

South Carolina

a. Charleston Gazette, “Flag Burning Ban is Not Necessary” (7/5/95)**

b. Rock Hill Herald, “Don’t Backtrack on Freedom” (6/16/97)

c. Lakelands Index-Journal, “Would Founders of Country’s Freedom Really Have Stifled Flag Burning?” (7/5/98)

d. Myrtle Beach Sun News, “To Burn or Not to Burn?” (3/26/00)

e. Rock Hill Herald, “Preserving Free Speech” (3/30/00)

f. Charleston Gazette, “Flag Burning is Not a Threat to the Republic; Political Crimes Are” (7/4/01)

g. Charleston Gazette, “Flag Needs No Protection From the Freedom for Which She Stands” (7/19/01)

South Dakota

a. Argus Leader, “Senators Should Stop Flag-Protection Plan” (11/28/95)

b. Argus Leader, “Measure to Spare Flag Would Spoil Constitution” (3/24/98)

c. Argus Leader, “Flag Burning Amendment Steals Liberty” (5/13/99)

Tennessee

a. Memphis Commercial Appeal, “Freedom Isn’t Fabric” (2/17/97)

b. Chattanooga Times, “A Subversive Flag Amendment” (5/22/97)

c. Nashville Tennessean, “Flag Burning Measure Would Restrict Liberty” (6/12/97)

d. Knoxville News Sentinel, “Thoughts on Flag Day and Two Bills Before Congress” (6/14/97)**

e. Memphis Commercial Appeal, “Freedom Issue” (6/16/97)

f. Chattanooga Times, “The Flag of Excess is Flying” (6/16/97)

g. Chattanooga Times, “Scrap the Flag Amendment” (6/2/98)**

h. Chattanooga Times, “The Flag Flies for Freedom” (7/4/98)

Texas

a. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “By Stifling Flag Burning Amendment, House Validates Deeper

Values” (6/24/90)

b. Dallas Morning News, “Amendment is Threat to Free Speech” (10/13/95)**

c. San Antonio Express-News, “Liberty Narrowly Wins” (12/14/95)

d. Dallas Morning News, “Wrong Remedy for Despicable Act” (2/9/97)

e. Houston Chronicle, “Flag Burning Despicable, but Don’t Torch Constitution” (3/27/97)

f. Austin American-Statesman, “Freedom of Expression” (6/14/97)

g. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “Strike Up a March--It’s the Flag Burning Amendment” (6/15/97)

h. Houston Chronicle, “Don’t be Fooled: Flag Amendment Really Mocks Old Glory” (2/17/98)

I. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “Flag Burning” (5/12/98)

j. Austin American-Statesman, “Congress Should Keep Hands Off the First Amendment” (5/24/98)

k. Dallas Morning News, “Union Will Endure Despite Attacks on Its Symbols” (7/3/98)

l. Austin American-Statesman, “Right of Free Speech” (7/10/98)

m. Houston Chronicle, “Don’t Sully Old Glory by Torching the Constitution” (7/11/98)

n Dallas Morning News, “Flag Desecration; An Overkill Solution to a Nonexistent Problem (4/20/99)

o. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “Burning the Flag”(4/28/99)

p. San Angelo Standard Times, “It’s Impossible to Ban U.S. Flag Desecration” (3/19/00)

q. Houston Chronicle, “Flagging Freedom” (7/22/01)

r. Houston Chronicle, “Flag of Freedoms/Don’t Let Pols Weaken First Amendment Protections” (5/25/03)

s. Austin American-Statesman, “Flag Amendment an Affront to Old Glory and What it Stands For” (6/12/03)

t. Austin American-Statesman, “For Vets, Flag Burning’s Not the Most Important Issue” (3/14/04)

Utah

a. Deseret News, “Flag Amendment Would Undermine Our Fundamental Liberties” (5/17/98)**

b. Ogden Standard-Examiner, “U.S. Flag Amendment Seriously Misguided” (5/29/98)

c. Provo Daily Herald, “Sen. Hatch’s Misguided Amendment” (4/13/03)

Virginia

a. Roanoke Times and World News, “Leave First Amendment Alone” (6/13/90)

b. Roanoke Times and World News, “Leave the Bill of Rights Alone” (10/13/95)

c. Richmond Times Dispatch, “Burn the Flag? Tax the Indians?” (10/19/95)

d. Newport News Daily Press, “Too Many Willing to Sacrifice Substance for Symbol” (12/14/95)

e. Roanoke Times and World News, “Vote of Confidence in the Constitution” (12/15/95)

f. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, “Flag Desecration Amendment Destroys Old Glory’s Symbol” (6/18/97)

g. Roanoke Times & World News, “Honor the Flag, But First Honor Freedom” (7/10/98)

h. Virginia Tech Collegiate Times, “Flag Desecration Amendment--Congress Should Not Limit Free Speech” (4/23/99)

i. Suffolk News-Herald, “On Amendments” (3/19/00)

j. Roanoke Times and World News, “A Cynical Wave of the Flag” (3/28/00)

k. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, “Freedom is More Precious than the Symbol of the American Flag” (3/28/00)

l. Hampton Roads Daily Press, “No Flag Amendment” (3/29/00)

m. Staunton News Leader, “Patriotism No Excuse for Oppression” (5/6/03)

n. Lynchburg News and Advance, “An Assault on the Freedom of Expression” (5/11/03)

o. Roanoke Times and World News, “The Idolatry of ‘Protecting’ Old Glory” (3/21/04)

p. Staunton News Leader, “Amendment Seeks to Burn Constitution (6/14/04)

Washington

a. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, “Flag Burning Debate Resurfaces” (5/31/95)

b. Tacoma News Tribune, “Old Glory’s Strong on Flag Day ‘95" (6/16/95)

c. Tacoma News Tribune, “36 Senators Stood Up For First Amendment” (12/13/95)

d. Seattle Times, “Honoring the Flag” (5/15/97)

e. Tacoma News Tribune, “U.S. Flag Doesn’t Need Protection” (6/15/97)

f. Kent South County Journal, “Congress Again Trying to Limit Basic Freedoms” (3/19/98)

g. Longview Daily News, No Hero Amendment” (3/18/98)

h. Tacoma News Tribune, “Playing Politics with Old Glory” (4/20/98)

i. Longview Daily News, “Amendment is not ‘Necessary’” (6/29/98)

j. Vancouver Columbian, “Flag Desecration Vote Puts Heat on Murray” (7/5/98)

k. Wenatchee World, “Sounds Reasonable Enough, Right?” (8/2/98)

l. Vancouver Columbian, “Flag Amendment Desecrates the Bill of Rights” (8/3/98)**

m. Yakima Herald Republic, “Protection for the Flag Unnecessary, Bad Idea” (3/28/99)

West Virginia

a. Parkersburg Sentinel, “Amendment Banning Flag Burning Endangers Bill of Rights” (1/31/97)

b. Charleston Gazette, “Flag Worship Posturing Politicians” (6/17/97)

c. Beckley Register-Herald, “Honor Old Glory, Cherish Freedom” (6/13/98)

d. Beckley Register-Herald, “Will They Ban Flag Waving, Too?” (7/4/98)

e. Charleston Daily Mail, “The Constitution Should Protect Individuals, Not Symbols” (7/9/98)

f. Charleston Gazette, “Amendment is a Blow to Freedom” (9/2/98)

g. Charleston Daily Mail, “Bills are Driving Me Crazy” (2/17/99)

h. Charleston Daily Mail, “Freedom of Expression is More Important Than Symbols” (3/31/99)

i. Charleston Gazette, “Freedom: Another Flag Effort” (7/19/01)

j. Charleston Daily Mail “Members of Senate Should Defend What Flag Stands For” (6/18/04)

Wisconsin

a. Madison Capital Times, “Flag Debate Diverts Nation” (6/12/90)

b. Wisconsin State Journal, “Flag Issue Ranks with MTV” (6/17/90)

c. Madison Capital Times, “Flag Push Smacks of Cynicism” (6/17/90)**

d. Madison Capital Times, “Repression Far Worse than Flag Burning” (6/21/90)**

e. Eau Claire Leader Telegram, “Let’s Concentrate on Real Problems” (6/18/95)

f. Wausau Daily Herald, “Flag Burners No Threat to U.S.” (12/13/95)

g. Wisconsin State Journal, “Amendment Rejection Victory on Two Fronts” (12/14/95)

h. Wisconsin State Journal, “Flag Burning Amendment Unpatriotic” (6/16/96)

i. Milwaukee Sentinel, “U.S. Flag Needs No Special Protection” (1/24/97)

j. Wisconsin State Journal, “Honor the Flag, Preserve Liberties” (6/13/97)

k. Madison Capital Times, “Bad Acts Desecrate Flag More Than a Protester With a Match” (9/15/97)**

l. Wisconsin State Journal, “Back Freedom, Burn Flag Resolution” (10/3/97)

m. Madison Capital Times, “Let’s Remember What Our Flag Stands For” (5/25/98)

n. Wisconsin State Journal, “Support What Flag Represents” (6/28/98)

o. Wisconsin State Journal, “Only Politics Pushing Flag Bill” (2/17/99)

p. Racine Journal Times, “Flying the Flag is Personal Act of Devotion, Respect” (6/27/99)

q. Racine Journal Times, “Congress Should Focus on Protecting Freedoms” (6/27/99)

r. Wisconsin State Journal, “American Freedoms Include Flag Burning” (5/30/03)

Miscellaneous

a. USA Today, “Congress Should Kill The Flag Amendment” (10/16/89)

b. Publishers Auxiliary, “Court Backs First Amendment in Recent Decisions” (6/25/90)**

c. American Society of Newspaper Editors Bulletin, “Burning Question Reignites” (by then-American Society of Newspaper Editors President Burl Osborne) (July/August 1990)

d. USA Today, “Burning Issue? Hardly; Flag is Already Protected” (5/16/95)

e. Sunday Republican, “Don’t Kill What Flag Stands For” (6/18/95)

f. USA Today, “Flag Shouldn’t be a Political Prop” (7/06/95)

g. Editor and Publisher, “Flag Amendment” (1/18/97)

h. Christian Science Monitor, “The Pseudo Patriotism of the Flag Amendment” (6/11/98)**

i. Roll Call, “Fourth of July Flag Waving by The Senate” (7/2/98)**

j. USA Today, “4th of July Freedoms: Wave, or Burn, Flag” (7/2/98)**

k. Doonesbury Comic Strip (7/5/98)**

l. USA Today, “Don’t Amend Bill of Rights” (4/21/99)

m. Christian Science Monitor, “Flag Measure Doesn’t Fly” (4/27/99)

n. Time, “Why the Flag is Not a Burning Issues” (3/29/00)