Monday, April 19, 2010
Mehrridge #5
Wolfson uses the Turner v. Safley case to tie to the idea that banning same sex marriage is ridiculous because they cannot get married while the hardest of murderers in our federal justice system are allowed to be married. This is a great strategy because it calls out the same sex marriage proponents as demonizing homosexuals as a lower class of citizen than mass murderers. With homosexuals being the last segment of the population to be denied the right to marry, Wolfson's point makes perfect sense in the context with the rest of his piece. Without Wolfson's connections being made in this piece, there would be no crystal clear connection from Turner v. Safley, but after reading the piece the connection is very clear.
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Brian, I don't think Wolfson is placing the marriage of felons opposite to gay marriage; he's actually paralleling them! He uses the definition that the opinion of Turner v. Safley presents in order to answer the question: "What is Marriage?" He then says that these people were allowed to marry because the government does not have the right to arbitrarily deny marriage to any group of people, as was decided in the court case.
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