Swiss Vote to Ban New Minarets.
Waking up the day after the vote went through and reading this news again, I am still surprised at Switzerland for this. There should be some international pressure regarding this issue. This is a country, which has “promoted” human rights in the past and now, does it just stop here?
Of course the American 2nd constitutional amendment of the right to bear arms shouldn’t be reconsidered…right??? I was just reading an article printed in the New York Times titled “Can a Boy Wear a Skirt to School” when all the gender and sexuality issues stated in the article seemed to go right past me, when I read the following line:
And safety is a critical concern. In February 2008, Lawrence King, an eighth-grader from Oxnard, Calif., who occasionally wore high-heeled boots and makeup, was shot to death in class by another student.
I asked myself if we’ll ever really be able to move forward as a society with this amendment still standing strong and people so ready to fight and protect it? Gender and sexuality in schools is a very up and coming issue which needs to be dealt sensitively and cautiously, however when death is involved because an individual decides to express his or her freedom differently (Amendement 1) which doesn’t coincide with another person’s idea of expression, we should just really ask why this student had access to that arm in the first place.
This is just so sickening and saddening to me.
