Issues

What issues would you like your US Representative and US Senators to focus on in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate? Why are these issues important? Give local/state and national issues. Examples could include local air quality, crime, funding a college education, and war just to name a few. To respond to this discussion topic you must have knowledge of the issues you are suggesting. Use the web links provided to assist you. Refrain from using or referencing political pundits (folks with TV or radio shows) or the editorial sections of newspapers.

Issues regarding sexual preferences dealing with not just legal matters, but society as a whole, have become extremely problematic in the last few years. Government officials are concerned with same sex marriages and how removing or keeping the ban affects the laws of the U.S. within the Constitution. Meanwhile, the issue affects anyone and everyone, especially children and their education even more. There are individuals advocating a change in the school’s curriculum to address, “bullying, respect, and acceptance.” The aim is to inform children as young as 5 years old about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Obviously, parents are enraged at the fact that strangers can be given the authority to decide their children’s belief and value system. A recent board decision of 3/2 now allows the enforcement of elementary schools in Alameda, California to teach children about such critical issues. Parents of Unified School District who think the topics should be discussed within the families have been called advocates of anti-gay slurs and individuals who refuse to prepare their children for the world they are living in. It was unimaginable once, but the school board is no longer looking for the best interest of the children, but their own reputation, in order to avoid looking “not prepared” and “intolerant.” Parents have been refused from taking their children out of the classes that teach about LGBT, leaving kindergarten students to ponder about why they are reading about books with two men raising a student just like them. This issue is only going to become more universal as parents rights will be stripped off from deciding what their children should learn and believe in. As more states are allowing gay marriages, TV media displaying same sex relationships, more children are at risk for being taunted for having “fags” as parents. Yet, at the same time, does this mean parents lose the right to control their children? According to the California District Board, apparently so.