Same-Sex Marriages

In the blog post Dear GOP windbags dog whistling on marriage equality written by Harold Cook, Cook has a very humorous way of expressing his opinion about the passing of Same-Sex Marriage back in June of this year. He supports same-sex marriage and is simultaneously putting down Ken Paxton and Ted Cruz who claim that same-sex marriage affects their religious practices. He calls it "un-American". Cook is raining on their parade and making an extremely valid point against those who appose same-sex marriages because it interferes with their beliefs. It is just like saying you're mad at someone for eating a cupcake in front of you because you are on a diet, it just doesn't make sense. He makes a joke of it at the end telling Ken Paxton and Ted Cruz to not go "marry any dudes" and that that is all the religious freedom they have. Cook seems to be addressing this to, obviously Ken Paxton and Ted Cruz, but also to those who are offended by same-sex marriages because it is against their religion. Cook puts in a very straight forward manner and to the point of where people are going wrong with what they say like everyone else cares to hear it.

The argument being made by Cook sure convinced me, mostly because I think that anyone and everyone is aloud to be stuck with one person for the rest of their life if they chose to do so, it does not matter about the sex of the partners. The comments that people left also shows that others agree and think the same way about the subject that he does. It is hard to change someones mind about their religious beliefs and preferences but telling someone to stay out of business that does not concern them is even harder to do. Which I'm sure everyone had seen back in June when the law passed. When it comes to changing someones religious views that they have known their whole life and stand by through thick and thin, good luck changing that. I know that Cook may not have done well at changing peoples minds about the same-sex marriage but he makes a point to stand up to them to tell them what they are doing is wrong, or "un-American".

Food for the Future

We can all remember waiting for Friday’s to get our rectangular shaped piece of pizza just like it says in the article We call all remember waiting for lunch on Friday’s and get our rectangular shaped piece of pizza just like the article Editorial: Texas moving wrong direction on school lunches, so it's up to the feds, “That time gave way to the age of the french fry and the vending machine in the cafeteria. Pizza Fridays became pizza every day. And if kids washed it all down with a can of soda, well, at least they were eating their lunch.”

The audience that is obviously being targeted is the group of parents who send their children to school where they buy a lunch there every day. Parents send their children to school all day and expect that they are being educated well and taken care of-meals included. Also, voters who vote for these laws are being targeted. At the end of the article the author lists a few reasons why the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act should be supported. All very good, healthy reasons.

The author is trying to get the readers to see their point of view, which is to massively support the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. The author gives many good reasons why you as a reader should support this Act and vote for it. The way it is written it makes you feel almost a little guilty for not being aware of such a thing and that you should want to change this ASAP. The author uses statistics to show how much the food for lunch has changed the weight in youth across America, and uses Dallas as a prime example as what the rest of the country should aim for.

I can completely see what the author is getting at in fact, I pretty much agree with what they are saying. I would agree that the foods that are being put into your body should be healthy choices that are beneficial for healthy growth. Our bodies at such young ages need the nutrients and proteins and the vitamins that healthy foods provides for us.