12-21-2012, 10:37 AM
(12-20-2012, 10:15 PM)kandrathe Wrote: Our rights are human rights, not white rights, or Christian rights, or mens rights. I think a Muslim woman has the right to wear a Burqa or a bikini as she sees fit. No man, or state should control her garb. Her arguments may be with her families views, but that is no concern of mine, or my governments. I also don't think the State should be involved in sanctioning or de-sanctioning our relationships, whether that be Christian marriage, polygamous marriage, or any other legal unions. The State should be concerned with the legality of the contract between adults, not the gender, religion, or whatever else the union involves (as long as it is otherwise legal).
You make this seem as a very clear thing but it isn't.
Wearing a Burqa often is not done because of liberty but it is forced upon someone. So by giving people the liberty to dress according to what they think their religion tells them to, you take away a liberty of for example a woman who doesn't want this at all.
The same goes for a woman who together with 6 others is married to one man.
But apart from what you and I think it is important what a government thinks. Being completely objective they should also allow gays to get married, underaged people to get married etc.
I guess you see here that it is not very easy to make a 'one rule' that fits all here.
In France it has been decided that you are not allowed to wear a burqa in public because it is considered to go against rights of women. In this case this law also doesn't really go against human rights.....I mean a Burqa is not necesarry for living a full life.
The Phelps family is allowed to go to funerals of killed soldiers and it is known that this is incredeibly hurtful to the relatives and friends of these killed men but still it allowed. On the other hand it is no allowed to use swear words in video clips.