Judge Thorpe Persuasive Speech

To some extent, Judge Thorpe is undoubtedly in effect saying that we should infringe on Sultaana Freeman’s religious beliefs because Mrs. Freeman is not going to break all of her religious beliefs, just the one of her exposing her face for religious reasons. Yes, Judge Thorpe is looking out for the community. She stated, “The state has always had a compelling interest in promoting public safety”. Of course she would want to prevent any dreadful events to happen to the community. Judge Thorpe also makes remarks of Mrs. Freeman by saying, “[She] most likely poses no threat to national security”. But who wouldn’t take the chance to decide if one person can be good from the other one being bad? Looks are deceiving. Then just as a reminder, this was just a few months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks; also, when security concerns …show more content…
I’m with Mrs. Freeman, one hundred percent, based on her religious belief. The First Amendment makes it illegal to make a law that establishes religion. So she has all the rights to take her driver license with her full face veil. On the other hand, Judge Thorpe also has the right based on dealing with other people that might be a real threat. But then again, our technology has advanced so much and can possibly come up with some type of solution. For example, we could be managed by either our fingerprints or our voices; we can add that to the driver license some way. Then for any reason, if a person needs to show his or her driver license, her or she can just scan his or her finger print or do voice recognition. In conclusion, no one should categorize and discriminate someone based on his or her religion, race or bad occurrences that happened in the past. Everyone is different in his or her own type of way. The race or religion of some people does not determine if they’ll do the exact same thing as others from the same race or