Chick-Fil-A and Gay Rights

The movement of the gay and lesbian population in the United States is one that has been in progress since the early 1900s, and is still facing overwhelming controversy and backlash today. The push for gay liberation in a country founded on Christian morals and beliefs has subsequently led to struggles over equality of marriage, adoption, jobs, and healthcare. One side of the controversy argues that every individual deserves the same rights, while the opposing mindset argues that being homosexual puts you into a group of people that is different, and will therefore be treated as such.

Leonard Pitts’ piece was effective from the start even though his piece was written in a ranting manner. This is because the author pours opinionated pathos into the piece and it happened to be the feeling of everyone in the country at the moment. The author also dismisses his ethos as a paid column writer to say what the normal American with average communication skills would say. Most paid column writers would probably not use the words, ¨you monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard¨ (Pitts). However, even though he is dismissing his credibility this works for him because it makes him a relatable speaker and makes the reader want to continue reading.

Journalists are infamous for their motivation to produce hard hitting editorials, twisting the truth for their own selfish benefit. Steve Chapman strays away from this stereotype by ensuring integrity in every article. Continuously, Chapman strives to present the public with his analytical opinions. Douglas Adams describes the drive of Steve Chapman; “To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought of measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity”. Steven Chapman, who writes weekly op-eds for the Chicago Tribune, delivers insight into national headlines using suggestive rhetoric appeals to address the reader’s fears of uncertainty followed by accredited reasoning, a condescending tone targeted at the written subject, calling the reader for reformation within society, and dashes to separate general statements from definitive fact, shifting from a mission-based point of view to thought-provoking opinionated writing in order to spark motivation within his readers using his opinions so that they can take action to better their communities in hopes of improving future national development.

Pinker anticipates the bias that the audience might form over the source of his publication since it is The New York Times, which is a traditionally liberal news source. To help convince his audience that he is a critical thinker and not necessarily partial to the standard views in Op-Ed, the articles he embeds as his counter-arguments are articles that were initially published in The New York Times. This rhetorical move strengthens his credibility, as well as increasing his audience’s perception of his

Social consciousness in the media and journalism is commonly thought of as the ability to acknowledge that an event has occurred, then address it vaguely in order to parade a false sense of progression. However, columnist and Pulitzer winner, Leonard Pitts Jr. embraces the analysis and discussion of issues that the public does not understand or refuses to recognize, such as racial prejudice, gay rights, and environmental deterioration. In each of his pieces, Pitts provides versatility with his rationale as well as an immense regard for the magnitude of communal perception and prejudices. In support of his more liberal ideals, he makes a point of using compelling argumentative techniques, which convinces his audience to examine the articles

The appeal to the character of the writer is known as ethos. Writers need to be informed, intelligent, honest, and respectful. Ethos is present in this essay through the writing technique of Kayla Webley. I would assume she is a credible source because she is published in Time magazine. Also she did her undergraduate work at University of Washington studying political science and journalism. Her graduate work was done at Northern University in new media. Webley is informed because she gives solid evidence that support her validations and main argument. I would consider her to be intelligent because she has detailed reasoning and uses successful tactics to persuade her readers. Honesty can be seen through Webley’s realistic point of view. She does not try to beat around the bush she gets straight to the problem in Applebaum’s proposal. Finally, she challenges peoples in a respectful way,

Being posted on an online blog gives updates and links to other articles posted and related to this subject. This kind of blog can also be seen as very political, and controversial since it defends something constitutional. The author starts out with what the religious right believe, then poses them as the issue to the separation of church and state and that their opinions are to be believed as propaganda to susceptible Americans. This is a research argument because Boston’s composition makes a specific and persuasive case and incorporates in his writing voices of his sources through summary, paraphrase, and quotation. He is very technical in his style of writing, meaning an example like this, “Madison believed that tac funding of church was unconstitutional and even concluded, later in his life, that official White House proclamations calling for days for prayer were a violation.” were he wrote very little in what he was thinking. (Boston, pg. 10. 2015) Much of his writing is very informative, convincing the audience of his view point. As the author puts it, “Our goal remains the same: Religious Right groups tell lies about the separation of church and state. This is the information you need to combat them.” The author tells the readers that the Religious Right are wrong, and what you are about to read is correct (Boston, pg. 9.

In a blog post “The Chick Fellatio Ep I: Stuck In the Craw” by Wayne Self, an activist playwright for Huffington Post, claims that the famous chicken sandwich chain, Chick-Fil-A, criminality against the LGBT by handing out millions of dollars to support anti LGBT organizations. Self’s bibliography and the picture of him smiling happily create a strong common ground, also show the readers he is credible for all the work he has done and achievements for the Huffington Post. Moreover, creating a strong common ground with the audience by talking to readers directly, Self effectively brings the readers to his side of the argument, which is to support the LGBT rights. Self provides facts and statistics about how Chick-Fil-A using their profit to against LGBT rights, and proving that Chick-Fil-A is the root of the inequality in LGBT rights. Strengthening the claim of how Chick-Fil-A has supported the anti LGBT organization, Self also articulately uses the emotional attack to find empathy and connections with audiences who view that LGBT rights are equal to basic human rights through his bullying metaphor and the angry passion.

The next article I examined was from NBC News, this article toyed with pathos right from the get go. The headline is “Trump Critics Dismiss New Immigration Order as Repackaged ‘Muslim Ban’” (Arkin). That plays with emotion by adding the idea of “Muslim Ban” because everybody has his or her own feelings and ideas within the connotation of that word. It also becomes a factor, because that is what the first immigration ban was dubbed before it was repealed, which shows an immediate sign of a more democratic bias. The article will go onto to convey ideas that makes the idea that this ban is a bad thing, and has religious prejudice within the order. The logos of the article is true, but gives a left-wing approach to the situation, which could affect

What dictates the social roles, the individual responsibility everyone has in society, and stereotypes, an overgeneralized and oversimplified belief of a particular person or group, in America’s 21st century society? Can rationale and critical thinking be held accountable for the establishment of ethical beliefs involving people and their sex, gender related value systems? The following readings covered in this essay are both found within the textbook, Signs of Life in the U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers; the Introduction: Popular Signs written by coauthors Sonia Maasik, a writing programs lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jack Solomon, an English Professor at California State University, and located within the second chapter of the textbook, the brief article, Dove’s “Real Beauty” backlash, written by Jennifer L. Pozner, the executive director of Women In Media & News (“Sonia Maasik”)(“Jack Solomon”)(194). Mass entertainment culture, the popular interests of the majority broadcasted in the media, can be attributed for constituting and sustaining the potentially hindering culture myths, a fictitious but widely accepted belief of a certain culture, regarding all genders. These cultural myths are not exclusive to men and women as they also involve transgender individuals and others who identify as another gender not classified under ‘cisgender.’ An extensive analysis of mass entertainment culture and

People see business as the back bone of America the two articles are not going to questions that but they will take into fact whether or not this is a good thing. The first article is about how Hobby Lobby and other places use their religious beliefs in order to support their discrimination mainly against the people who are a part of the LGBTQ community. The second article is about how businesses use the loopholes in work visas in order to exploit workers. Both of these articles go to prove one thing that we need to add more laws to curtail the abuse and the way that business practices.

Charles M. Blow was born on August 11, 1970. He was raised in Gibsland, Louisiana before later moving to Park Slope, Brooklyn to raise his own family as a single father of three kids. Blow graduated from Grambling State University, and he became a graphics editor for the New York Times in 1994. He also worked as a graphic director and art director at both National Geographic and the Times. Blow is currently a visual Op-Ed columnist who works for the New York Times.

These articles are in the political genre and they don’t do much to break away from their genres, but they are different from each other. Typically, in these types of genres, the article is written from a politically biased perspective. If the writer is more conservative, they’ll write with right-winged views; the same thing if it were written from a liberal point of view. With these articles, you can

In a hypothetical scenario in which same-sex marriage and religious freedom are brought to a legal confrontation, the constitutional rights of both plaintiffs and defendants bring forth a nationwide debate on civil liberties and rights—yet it is easy to mistake one for the other. In this scenario, after lesbian couples Donna and Theodora married in the state of Massachusetts instead of North Carolina (Theodora’s home state), both decided to move to North Carolina in the city of Clinton where they found jobs to financially support one another. However, when both couples contacted a local bakery shop for a wedding cake, they were denied by the shop’s owner who cited North Carolina’s recently enacted law that allows businesses to refuse the patronage of homosexuals when the business owners themselves have a religious objection to homosexuality and same-sex marriage. When Donna and Theodora tried to hire a photographer for when they planned to recite their wedding vows, the photographer refused—with the issue of religious freedom again been cited in her arguments. Although this initially didn’t come as a surprise to Donna and Theodora, Donna was more concerned about the maid of honor, Bernice, a transgender person being able to use the women’s restroom. Because Bernice was born male, under the rules of House Bill 2—more formally addressed as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act (aka “the bathroom bill”)—that would exclude Bernice from using the bathroom of her choice

Bias is a discernibly human quality; like all things human in nature, there lies deep in our consciousness values, axiology’s, and prejudice. These ‘biases’, rather worldviews, create within each person their own rose coloured lenses with which they perceive, and more importantly, influence the world. To look at how bias can occur both blatantly and subtly in writing, three distinct forms will be analyzed; Linguistic Biases,