For speech # 2 I also had to think pretty hard about what subject I wanted to use. You really can't write a persuasive for something that you don't actually care about. So I had to find a subject I cared about but at the same time wouldn't stress me out too much. I choose same-sex marriage rights for this assignment. Since this isn't something that affects me, I knew it wouldn't get to me too much. I think people don't understand that you don't have to be homosexual to argue that homosexuals should have all the rights heterosexuals do. To me, it's just obvious. I used to be one of the Christian-types that I talked about a little in my paper who are just out-right against gay marriage. I don't know when I started thinking that it really wasn't right to deny them rights. I guess the last few years I have been doing some soul-searching, trying to find out what I actually believe and not just what I was taught to believe. To me, being Christian is about kindness. We are supposed to be like Jesus and Jesus was constantly befriending "sinners"...not to change them, but to help them. I don't know if homosexuals choose to be that way or if it's inborn...to me it doesn't matter. They are people, they are Americans...they should have the same rights as the rest of us. And since we don't have an official religion, we can't start now making laws based on a specific religious belief.