Q: Flag Burning: Free Speech? Illegal Activity?

Item: Law prof: Idaho’s flag-burning law won’t wash: Elizabeth Brandt says 1981 law likely would not withstand a constitutional challenge /Dean Ferguson, Lewiston Tribune

More Info: A 1981 law makes it a misdemeanor for anyone “who publicly mutilates, defaces, or tramples upon or burns, with intent to insult, the flag, standard, colors ensign of the United States or of the state of Idaho.” Just because a law stays on the books doesn’t mean it is constitutional, Brandt said. “I can’t even imagine that law is constitutional,” she said.

Question: I know most of us are appalled at the thought of someone burning the American flag. But do you see it as a right allowed under the First Amendment? Or such an egregious act that it should be criminalized?