Same sex marriage:

Blogger one:
Isnt your wedding day suppose to be the happiest day of your life? I believe that your wedding day is meant to be filled with happiness and should be shared with those who matter to you and who have contributed to your life, so why do so many people descriminate you if you want to spend the rest of your life with somone of the same sex as you? If somone really loves somone and you are happy together then leave them be. Why interfear with their relationship? Why get invloved? Some peoples lives are filled with such missery that they find that they feel better about themselves when they lower other peoples self esteem. I think that they are brave to commit their lives to someone when they know many will dissagree. They are making history in our world and people are brining them down for doing what everyone wants to do which is just find love with somone and feel as though they mean something to someone, however they just choose that somone to be the same sex as them rather than being opposing sex'. I feel as though these people should be looked up to and be treated the same as any other married couple as they are the same as each and every one of us so there is no need for discrimination.

Blogger two:
I know that they are not effecting anyone by what they are doing, however I just feel as though what they are doing just isnt right and that the way i was brought us isnt reflected in same sex marriages as I was always brought up with the idea that men and women married and not men with men, nor women with women. Not only does it effect me because of the way i was brought up but in todays society children who get brough up with two mums or two dads will be discrimanted at school and will find themselves potentially getting bullied just because what their parents are doing is against the norm. For many years it has always been that a man and a woman fall in love with eachother and marry and are then able to have sex to create a new life. As much as same sex couples are still able to have children I just believe that it is important for every child to grow up with a mother and a father as when they get older and need to talk to people about their troubles they may not feel comfortable with only having the option of talking to a male or only being able to talk to a female, especially as they go through puberty and start to become an adult where they need to make big decisions.

Commentary:

Blogger 1: Blogger one who is arguing that there is nothing wrong with same sex marriage uses many rhetorical questions to express their point and make the audience ask themselves questions about the subject which may change whether they agree or not. They open with a rhetorical question which makes them wonder. The use of the superlative ‘happiest’ in the opening question makes the audience believe that it is supposed to be happy however the use of the rhetorical question may intrigue them and  make then want to find out why your wedding day might not be the happiest day of your life.

They also use personal opinions to express meaning as they use ‘it’s meant to be’  which sounds like it is instructive and therefore makes it hard to disagree. ‘should be shared’ is also a use of an opinion however makes it seem as though that’s how it should be and that is you go against it you’re doing something wrong.

As well as this they also use conflicted assumptions about other people’s life to make their opinion sound more believable. ‘Some people’s lives are filled with such misery’ Here, blogger one is suggesting that other people’s lives are so miserable that they need to lower other peoples happiness just to make them feel better which is an example of a conflicted assumptions as it is a assumption that is made which may not necessarily be true and can be seen as violent.  

Blogger one makes the people in the subject sound almost heroic and that we should be proud of them for ‘making history’ as they are some of the first people to marry people who are the same sex as them and yet they are disgusted that many still disagree. This is because he is from someone who has been in a same sex relationship and therefore know what it feels like to be discriminated from others.

‘There is no need for discrimination’ this is a persuasive opinion as it is almost a command however it is only someone’s opinion.  This is a very persuasive technique as well as commanding which helps to express the importance of the subject.

Blogger 2: Blogger two who is against same sex marriage doesn’t use many rhetorical questions nor strong use of punctuation to express their opinion.

‘I was always brought up with the idea that men and women married and not men with men, nor women with women’ this quotation suggests to me that the way they were brought up is important to this person and that they believe what their mum and dads views are and that they respect their mum and dads opinions and beliefs and follow their beliefs into adult hood and that It isn’t normal for them to have people around them that are couples of the same sex. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they are against them they just might nor necessarily think that that’s the right thing to do and therefore not want anything to do with this sort of thing.

‘in today’s society children who get brought up with two mums or two dads will be discriminated at school and will find themselves potentially getting bullied just because what their parents are doing is against the norm.’ this is a belief that blogger number two has against same sex couples.  This doesn’t mean that this is what will defiantly happen it’s just what they think will happen based on  maybe their background or personal experiences or they might be a younger person who has personally witnessed the changes that are occurring in today’s society. 

‘As much as same sex couples are still able to have children I just believe that it is important for every child to grow up with a mother and a father…’ Again this is just a personal opinion that they believe is important for people who are brought up in a same sex marriage. This is not necessarily being against them it’s just their way of looking out or thinking of how different or how much harder it would be for children who would be brought up in a same sex marriage.