Engaging Text #4

Evan Wolfson definitely uses some of the skill he has obviously learned as a lawyer to justify gay marriage. Consider the near-two-pages of bullets he has laid out describing all the legal advantages of marriage. On page 103, he uses a Supreme Court Case that ruled convicted felons could marry to transition to a group of people that can't marry. Even his writing style - his method of transition - includes a legal reference. He also lists the four attributes of marriage that the justices determined. And consider the example of interracial marriage: "And change still needs to take place in the hearts of many, not to mention the law. As recently as 1998 in South Carolina and 2000 in Alabama, 40 percent of the voters in each state voted to keep offensive language barring interracial marriage in their respective state constitutions."