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Protestors may face charges for burning Iowa flag

April 18, 2000 By admin

Charges may be filed against the Kansans who burned an Iowa flag at the statehouse yesterday. Reverend Fred Phelps and his family protested Governor Vilsack’s executive order which bars on-the-job discrimination against gay state employees. The group poured finger nail polish remover on a state flag and set it afire. Iowa law does ban burning the state’s red, white and blue flag, and the Polk County attorney is reviewing yesterday’s case. A spokesman for the state Attorney General, however, says Iowa’s law may not pass a constitutional test. You may recall, a federal law outlawing the burning of the Stars and Stripes was thrown out by the courts. An effort to pass a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning has stalled at the federal level.

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