Friday, April 25, 2008

Wolfson's use of the court case Turner v. Safely

I think that Wolfson uses this court case as a rhetorical device to stir up emotions about how even people who are convicted of crimes, can get married but law abiding good citizens that are gay cannot get married. He is showing how we do not deny the rights of convicts but we deny the rights of gays which is discrimination. I that when people read about this it will really put the situation into perspective for them. It is incredibly unfair to discriminate and that is what is happening. I think this was a wise choice on Wolfson's part to put this in. I think it would upset people and they would come to realize, hopefully, that this needs to change. If the court considers prisoners normal people than it should definitely consider gay people normal people. This is just what I think of course, and reading about this court case really fired me up.

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