Cultural Sensitivity/Political Correctness

    While I figure out how to make this pretty here is the first topic of discussion.  Cultural/Social/Political sensitivity.  Or the idea that I have to respect peoples' differences in culture, social status and political beliefs.  When this concept was created most peoples beliefs were not that different.  He likes Egg Salad and I like BLTs, that great I respect his opinion.  You could come together and work things out because you were both working from a common set of values, we both like sandwiches.
    I was watching Bill Maher the other day and he stated that he did not feel the need to respect a culture that oppresses women.  The Taliban oppresses women, you can't really deny it while examining the facts.  Most of this oppression is based on one religious interpretations of Islam, this is not the only interpretation mind you, just one of many.  Recently the Taliban shot a little girl in the head.  Her only crime was advocating for the education of women.  Maher points was that it is ok to believe that our culture, with all its flaws, is superior to the Taliban's culture.  We do not have to respect a culture that oppresses women.  I agree.  What purpose would cultural/religious sensitivity serve but to condone the oppression of women?  So the question is: do I have to respect the culture, the religious, the political views of Americans who believe it is ok to oppress women, homosexuals and immigrants?  Do I have to respect an American who say "you do not get to participate in the American Dream" to people who do not fit into their world view?  When in reality, letting those people experience the American Dream would take exactly nothing from the people who would withhold it?  I do not.  Moreover, I believe it is expressly counter to America's core beliefs.  You have the right to your beliefs, I would never take them from you or legislate against your life style, all I ask is for you to do the same.  You can believe that gay marriage is wrong all day long, but you have no right to keep it from somebody when it takes exactly nothing from you.  And while legislative avenues exist in our society to do just that, these processes were created to protect liberty, we should not use them as tools of oppression.