If spitting on or burning the American flag is protected by free speech, why isn't displaying the flag protected by free speech?

You raise a valid point. The problem is that the ACLU protects people who want to spit on the American flag, but not people who want to fly the American flag.

You raise an invalid point.

Displaying the flag is not banned. Matter of fact this proposal was vetoed.

Yet even the proposal wouldn't have "banned" the flag, but merely banned any nationality's flag from being hung in the lobby of student government.

How exactly does your free speech rights extend to demanding an organization which does not represent you display an American flag?

This simply isn't a free speech issue at all.

If you wished to compare it to flag burning. You'd need to claim you had a right to force someone else to burn a flag.

There is the tempest, there is the teapot.

It would be an interesting legal challenge, but you'd need a plaintiff. Someone to come forward and claim their 1st Amendment rights were being violated by removing the American flag from the dorm walls.

Alternately, students could simply ignore the vote and continue to display the flag. It would then be up to the student group to approach university management and ask for their vote to be enforced. I doubt the U. of California would actually enforce this vote. As a state university U of C receives government funds, meaning they qualify as a "state actor" for the purposes of suppressing free speech.

It would be a can of worms for U of C.

Mary,,,,according to liberal logic; Spitting on or burning the American flag is protected by Freedom of Liberal Speech.

Displaying the flag is not protected by Freedom of Liberal Speech because the American flag represents war mongers, racism, inequality, corporate greed, homophobia, and religion.

Now in the real world of course displaying the flag is protected by Freedom of Speech, but the U.S. Constitution is only as good as those that interpret and enforce it.

Public education is totally overrun with administration liberalism and organized crime, I mean organized labor. Anything political that is not liberal is banned. So there's that.

And, the rationale for banning the American flag is that then they would have to allow the display of the ISIS flag among others. My question is, why? We have only one American flag, and we should be able to allow only the American flag to fly.

It is. Decorate your whole house with flags.

If what you say is true about the UoC, then they voted on the subject, it violates no ones civil rights (a flag is not a person), and injures no one. That's how democracy works.

If the majority voted to burn heretics and witches, that would violate someone's civil rights and be a problem.

Why do conservatives always misrepresent issues?

The association had voted to no longer display the U.S. flag in their offices, which was then vetoed by the president of the students' association. There was never a suggestion to entirely ban the flag on campus.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Orange-Cou...

Because typical liberals will spit on and burn the American flag but willl not display it. The flag represents everything they hate so they don't want you displaying it either. In fact our own Government said that if someone is patriotic or flies the American flag they are a potential domestic terrorist.

They did not vote to ban the American flag, they voted to ban all flags, It is interesting that no con can talk about this without lying.

And the ban was overturned - so what exactly is your point?

It is protected under Freedom of expression and speech, the American students should be placing American flags every place they can and do it until the garbage stops, one way to prevent it is too ban Muslim students from schools.