Dr. Robert Jeffress, a pastor of the 12,000 member First Baptist Church in Dallas and a Fox News Contributor, writes about how marriage is to be entitled to only one man and one woman. He implies that the Supreme Court had a made a “tragic error” with traditional marriage by giving the right to same-sex marriage and opposing God. Jeffress supports his claim by using, rhetorical questions, quotes, and figurative language along the way. These strategies were used to convince his audience the Supreme Court did wrong.
Rhetorical questions are used in writing to involve the reader into the author’s argument. Jeffress used it to have the reader question their own thoughts on same-sex marriage. These questions absorb the reader deeper into the topic …show more content…
These quotes provide with evidence on the topic, thus persuading the reader to be on author’s side of story. Jeffress brings up Justice Kennedy talking about how the traditional definition of marriage “has been with us for millennia. It’s very difficult for the Court to say, ‘Oh, well, we know better.’” After this, Jeffress refers to the Supreme Court when they come out saying, “We know better than God how to define marriage.” This persuades the readers to believe the Supreme Court is in the wrong for practically stating they are wiser than God, therefore they are also in the wrong for giving the right to same-sex marriage. In response to what the Supreme Court had to say, Jeffress refers to the bible and states that God “made them male and female… For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh” (Matthew 19:4-5). With this Jeffress has now countered the Supreme Court’s debate about knowing more about marriage than God. This gives support for the reader to know Jeffress is right and the Supreme Court is wrong in the act of making same-sex marriage a
Rhetorical questions are used in writing to involve the reader into the author’s argument. Jeffress used it to have the reader question their own thoughts on same-sex marriage. These questions absorb the reader deeper into the topic …show more content…
These quotes provide with evidence on the topic, thus persuading the reader to be on author’s side of story. Jeffress brings up Justice Kennedy talking about how the traditional definition of marriage “has been with us for millennia. It’s very difficult for the Court to say, ‘Oh, well, we know better.’” After this, Jeffress refers to the Supreme Court when they come out saying, “We know better than God how to define marriage.” This persuades the readers to believe the Supreme Court is in the wrong for practically stating they are wiser than God, therefore they are also in the wrong for giving the right to same-sex marriage. In response to what the Supreme Court had to say, Jeffress refers to the bible and states that God “made them male and female… For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh” (Matthew 19:4-5). With this Jeffress has now countered the Supreme Court’s debate about knowing more about marriage than God. This gives support for the reader to know Jeffress is right and the Supreme Court is wrong in the act of making same-sex marriage a