Argumentative Essay On Safe Space

There is a movement spreading through America’s higher education system that I find to be both comical, and disheartening alike. Perhaps you have read about the demand to have a “Safe Space.” Students feel that it is oppressive, cruel, and demeaning to challenge their thinking. These “safe spaces” have become the norm for many student groups. In late February this year, an anonymous “activist” paired up with the National Institute for Reproductive Health Action Fund, and released a Google extension that one can download, and install in their Chrome browser to help make the internet a “safe space.” The Choice Language plugin description states that it is for those who are “tired of seeing the fraught term ‘pro-life’ used ubiquitously and incorrectly,

we conceived of this extension to shift the language of the discussion towards a more accurate framework.” In other words download the plugin, and every time the term “pro-life” would appear, it is replaced with “anti-choice.” As an example of how this would work using the plug-in, here is the headline for a news story publish March, 9th 2016 by Lifenews.com:
“South Carolina Senate Passes Anti-Choice Bill Banning Late-Term Abortions After 20 Weeks”
The headline’s message is completely distorted! Some folks may brush it off as ‘just words,’ but it is so much more. Language effects the way people think, and act. It effects what people are willing to die for. Image for a moment if Jesus had said, I am just one of many ways to get to the father; we may safely presume none would sacrifice their life in His name. Often we don’t give much thought to how we phrase things when we are communicating, and it’s not always as obvious “anti-choice” versus “pro-life.” For instance, it’s common place to say to a pregnant woman “you’re going to be a great mom.” Isn’t she already a mother? The Psalmist states “you knitted me together in my mother’s womb” (Ps. 139:13, ESV). We must be very intention in how we discuss unborn children, and their parents.
So what should our response be?

How does one turn the cheek to such unashamed manipulation of their words, yet still be a strong voice for the helpless? For starts, please don’t misuse God given gifts. For example, would be easy for a ‘techie’ to create a plug-in that changes “pro-choice” to “anti-life,” but that, I believe, would only generate more animosity. Don’t give into the temptation of engaging in slanderous or hateful rhetoric, but rather speak in truth and love. The truth spoken in love often pierces the conscience, whereas spittle filled rage stops at the eardrums. The scriptures are clear in 1 Peter 2:23, “When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.” (ESV). That does not mean remaining quiet though. Be the voice speaking out against the evils of abortion. If God has given you a testimony, share it with others in order that they hear the truth, and believe. Act 4:4 says “But many of the people who heard their message believed it, so the number of believers now totaled about 5,000 men, not counting women and children”

(NLT).
But most importantly, do not stop praying.

In The Christian in Complete Armor, William Gurnall writes:

By "praying always" we are exhorted to the daily, constant exercise of prayer; by "praying with perseverance," we are pressed to bear up against discouragements, as to any particular request we may make at the throne of grace, and not to give over, though we have not a speedy answer to it. So that the former is opposed to a neglect of the duty in its stated seasons, and the latter to a fainting in our spirits, as to any particular suit we put

up.