April 14

Wolfson uses an anecdote to explain why the prisoners took their marriage dilemma to the Supreme Court. It was effective in the fact that it grabbed the attention of the readers. The most effective part of the passage was listing the main ideas behind marriage. Turner vs. Safley was relevant to the argument about same-sex marriage. It is ridiculous that people in prison would have marriage rights when a same-sex couple could not. There is absolutely no logic behind it at all. This case made the reader think about the reasons that marriage is important. In thinking about this, it doesn’t make any sense that people are exempt from freedoms of an American. America is a free country, however, when it gives marriage rights to someone who is in prison because they failed to obey the law, it is absurd that America denies a perfectly acceptable same-sex couple from those same privileges.