Legislation should be passed for gay marriage to be made legal on political, social, and religious grounds. Homosexually is a way of life, and therefore government protects it. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (Section 1 of amendment 14)

This section of the 14th amendment states that if one person, or group, is given the right to do something then the same right and/or privilege must be made available to all people in all states. Since heterosexual people have the right to marry then gay people should also have the right to marry. One of the proponents against gay marriage is that some people feel that it will weaken the values of families. They feel it will downplay the significance of marriage and lead to indecent practices such as marrying family members and multiple people, to even highly unlikely pairings such as to objects or animals. Gay marriage however, actually has the potential to enhance the value of family life. Since gay couples can not procreate they will be naturally inclined to adopt children. In 2006 there were about 520,000 children in foster care, according to the North American Council on Adoptable Children in St. Paul. Of those, 120,000 were available for adoption, but only 50,000 found permanent homes each year. Gay couples could be the answer to giving thousands of kids loving homes that desperately need them. Some of the religious talk against used against gay marriage is based on the Levitical code which says, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination:” (Leviticus 18:22) Later text reveals that this one law was part of a whole set of outdated and unjust laws that the church would view as unreasonable. For example, the levitical code calls for the stoning of a women who is found not to be a virgin on her marriage day. Certainly the church would not advocate this practice or law so it should not try to give credence to the law code that demands it. This is the practice of eisegesis, which is the practice of adding extra meaning to biblical text in which the true intend of the writer of the text is misinterpreted. This is detrimental not only to the Christian church but to the American society and culture.

I read It's about time to end this war critique written by my colleague Ana. I really like the beginning and I completely agree when she says “WHAT WAR?!” Because those are my thoughts exactly. My colleague states all the correct facts about our American solider casualties and what President Obama is thinking about doing. It is true that we have lost a great deal of American soldiers and it is true that President Obama is thinking about sending more troops over. I think his idea on that subject matter is basically saying if we send over more troops it will help save more of our soldiers in general. But, the question is, how do we know if sending more troops over is the answer? We don’t know, and it looks like President Obama might want to find out.

I like how Ana points out “okay, lets go back home”. This is a great question that many Americans wonder about because even I want to know why we can’t just throw are hands up and say we’re out of here and head home. She made a good point about this question and it is an unanswered question President Obama has yet to answer and it is a question that many people are waiting to hear answers about.

However, I don’t think that we aren’t dropping out because of our pride or because we are cowards. I think we are trying to prove a point by staying over there, but it seems like we are getting slaughtered.

Everyone wants their family members to come home and be safe but if they are sending more troops over there, there is a possibility that the soldiers that were there first will be stuck there for longer until we untangle this mess.

In the end of my colleagues critique I learned something new because I didn’t know how much of our taxes were being used on the war and I found that quite interesting.

Overall, I enjoyed reading this critique because I agreed with it and found it very interesting. The questions that I would’ve liked to know more about is why President Obama doesn’t want to pull out our troops yet and is it going to help if President Obama decides to send over more troops. But besides those two questions I really liked this because we have the same opinions about the “so called war" and you made a lot of good points.