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BANNED TOPICS FOR 2009
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To stimulate creativity, topics that make it to the General Assemblies or Plenary Sessions are off limits for the next year. The number in parenthesis is the proposal, or base proposal that was presented.
Please do not write a proposal that is in any way related to the topics below. Please address all questions to your state director.

  1. 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics (61)
  2. Abortion, (55), (381), (151), (311)
  3. Adoption Rights relating to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) (65)
  4. Affirmative Action relating to College Admissions (110)
  5. Energy Consumption Reduction (174)
  6. Antibiotics on the Controlled Substances Act (266)
  7. Armed Force Protests and Armed Force Ceremony Protests (213)
  8. Confederate Flag in all Public Places and Issued by Governmental Departments (102)
  9. Birth Control Requirement for Mothers Receiving Government Funded Family Aid (240)
  10. Chemical or Biological Warfare Agents Material Restrictions (121)
  11. Convicted Illegal Alien Deportation (429)
  12. Desalination (331)
  13. Gays in the Military (248)
  14. Elimination of Tobacco Products (277)
  15. Eminent Domain (222)
  16. Equal Rights Amendment (40)
  17. Ethanol Mandate (288)
  18. Federal Earmarks (445)
  19. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (317)
  20. Federal Funding of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) (280)
  21. Federal Government Control on Public K-12 Education (326)
  22. Federal Organization of Political Parties (182)
  23. Federal Recognition of State Granted Marriages and Civil Unions (295)
  24. Funding of Current Military Operations in Iraq (463)
  25. Immigration Quotas (113)
  26. Inmate Organ Donation (431)
  27. Intelligent Design, Creationism, Evolution.(60)
  28. Stem Cell Research (426)
  29. Prostitution (375)
  30. Megan’s Law (89)
  31. Neonatal Circumcision (64)
  32. Presidential Line-Item Veto (378)
  33. Psychotropic Drug Regulation (231)
  34. Public Emergency Response Systems (321)
  35. Reduction of U.S. Forces in Iraq (333)
  36. SAT Reasoning Test as a Requirement of College Admission (14)
  37. Selective Service Program relating to the Addition of Females and Expansion of Power (56)
  38. Suffrage/ Voting Rights for Employed, Income-Tax Paying Minors (46)
  39. United Nations Arms Embargo against Zimbabwe (115)
  40. United States Aid to Darfur (281)
  41. United States Defense Budget (7)
  42. United States Withdrawal from United Nations Treaty (90)
  43. Voting for Declaration of War (185)
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