Ethos-Credibitity
-NY
Times Opinion artice
-Frank
Bruni
-Chuck
Bennet- gay man 80 years old, a college English professor, then a dean
-Navy
-State
of Maine
-President
Obama
-State
of Minnesota
-Gay
Advocates
-Gay
characters in movies and on TV
-John
Osborne
-David
Newman
Pathos-Emotion
-President
Obama’s history-making statement of support in May
-“You
know that old saying, Born 50 years too soon?” he asked me. “I think I do feel
something of that.” –Chuck Bennet
-“he
bought his dream house on the ocean here 15 years ago with two close friends,
because he didn’t want to grow old alone and didn’t expect to meet anyone
special, not so late in the game.” –Chuck Bennet
-In
the late 1950s, he was forced out of the Navy for being gay.
-Advocates
are most optimistic about Maine
-Only
assurances that there were other people like him were newspaper stories about
men arrested on Fire Island for “obscene” or “depraved” behavior.
-He
felt the need to be secretive about his sexuality and kept work colleagues at a
distance. His parents died without knowing he was gay
-He
later joined efforts to end the ban on gays in the military, giving money to
the cause
-“The
likelihood of winning was so, so far-fetched.”
tormented
by the straight world’s norms, which excluded him-David Newman, 71, lives with
Chuck
-“It
recognizes their dignity. His dignity.”
-“I’m
inclined to look back not in anger, as John Osborne once said, but with some
degree of sadness,” he said. “Everyone could have been happier. Everyone could
have been more fulfilled if they hadn’t been burdened with this prejudice.”
Logos-Stats
-Maine-one
of four states with same-sexmarriage on ballot for Nov. 6
-Minnesota,
the vote is on an amendment to the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage
-Maine,
Maryland and Washington, the vote is to permit it, and thus to join the six
states where it’s already legal, thanks to legislatures or courts
-That
right means that gay people are equal to straight people
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