Blog#2: 9/14/12

Blog#2: 9/14/12

   The reading this week in Rereading America, was about the opinions of those who support same-sex marriage. This included authors who are gay and have been married to their partners, those who fear what will become of their property or children if they should die before getting married to the significant other and someone who isn’t against homosexuality but does not want the government to interfere with the situation.  In my opinion, marriages should only be between a man and a woman, no matter how much love is between two men or two women.  The Bible is even against homosexuality.  “If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, they have both committed a detestable thing. They must be put to death: their blood is on their own hands” (Leviticus 20:13 HCSB). God made us to love people of the opposite sex so we can grow in numbers and populate the world.  Marriage is a very sacred thing.  It is an everlasting promise to your groom or bride to love and cherish them until death separates you from them.  Thinking about finding that special someone really makes me believe in love.  True, marriage is about love but it should also be for the right love.  The love that God made you to have.

   The reading in They Say I say and The Little Seagull’s Handbook was very informative, too, though I do not have that much to argue about this reading.  The little Seagull’s Handbook explained the writing process, how to create good thesis statements, how to build your essay and how to support your thesis statement along with elements on how to design your writing.  The book, They Say I Say, explains how to tie all of the elements of your paper together like repeating yourself but with a slight difference.  It also teaches you how to write your paper and be specific on what you are trying to say so people will not understand you by interpreting your opinion wrongly.  I hope to learn about how to become a better writer so all of my papers this year will be done in the best of my abilities.