The Gay Marriage Debate. due 12 Feb

Your task is to evaluate FOUR of the following sources by answering these questions in depth. You do not have to share your personal opinion about the issue; instead, focus on the texts and how they affect you (which, of course, might be related to your opinion, but not necessarily).

1. What is the rhetorical situation (audience, purpose, writer, topic, genre, context--note that the topic is the same for all of them, and the context is the same for all but #3).
2. As a reader/viewer, what does it make you think, do or feel? Be honest and describe it in depth...this will help you identify with your own audience when you're writing.
   
3. How credible is this source? What, specifically, leads you to this conclusion? How does the issue of credibility impact your reaction to it (as described in #2)?
   

No need to post your evaluation on the blog; bring it to class with you instead. We will discuss your thoughts and I will collect it for a grade.

• Interview with Rick Warren (optional: follow the "see the full interview" link below the video)
• Stephen Colbert's interview with Dan Savage (optional: skip to 2:15 in)
• Jonathan Rauch, "A More Perfect Union: How the Founding Fathers would have Handled Gay Marriage" p. 588 in Promise of America.
• Interview with Senator Rick Santorum
  
• Bob Ostertag "Why Gay Marriage is the Wrong Issue"
• "Proposition 8: The Musical"
• "Consequences of Gay Marriage"