Proposal

Womens Rights/Choice
Gay Rights: mainly law
Freedom of Religion
Respect in general

Womens Rights:

The ongoing controversy regarding women’s rights apart from unequal pay has been abortion. Pro-choice or pro-life? Recently, however, the heated debate has come to contraceptives and healthcare. Should insurance cover birth control as if it were any other medicine? Are employers allowed to dictate and discriminate based on contraceptives? Are the 99% of women taking birth control “sluts” and/or “prostitutes” as Rush Limbaugh would put it? Six men are making these decisions. Men, meaning they never have been, are not, and never will be women who could potentially become pregnant. I am sure these men enjoy taking part in sexual activity and would feel very different on the subject if other contraceptives were to fail. Noone should be able to tell another being what is right or wrong for their body and what they can and can’t do.

Gay Rights:

I recently heard on the news that Tennessee is making it illegal to discuss homosexuality in public schools from kindergarten through eighth grade. Concerns are that children who might be gay, be bullied or have a homosexual family member at home will have nowhere to go to discuss it if the need arises. Proponents argue that there is an ‘age appropriate’ responsibility to hold in the school area. Why is there the need to create this law in the first place? What are we so afraid of?

Respect:

United States soldiers burnt the Koran. Men are choosing what women can and can’t do with their bodies. The government is saying gay or lesbian love is invalid and inadequate. This all comes back to the point of respect. We need to respect other people and their differences.