question 5

The Turner v. Safley case was extremely relevant and important to the argument made in Wolfston's piece What is a Marriage? The rhetorical strategy is the same as the strategy in our past article, where he made it seem as if he were talking about a gay marriage case, and then at the end he revealed something completely different. Instead of same sex marriages, it is a case about the ability for convicts to be married. This is important to convincing the audience of his point and appeals to logos and pathos. This case is relevant because the questions that the case determined are the same questions that must be answered when one asks oneself to weigh if it is worth the consequences of having homosexual couples allowed to wed. People must take in either side of a discussion to make a legitimate decision. In this case, it was unanimously decided that it was worth the consequences, and comparing convicts to homosexuals appeals to pathos and logos as well.