The piece: "Anti-gay legislators in Kansas: You've been overtaken by history"
Speaker: Leonard Pitts, a democratic journalist for the Miami Herald. Pitts writes columns regarding social and political issues twice a week and has received a Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He's intelligent, published, and educated. Pitts is fed up with anti-gay agendas in America, especially those by legislators.
Occasion: Anti-gay legislators in Kansas attempted to pass a bill that would approve discrimination against gay people in favor of deeply religious people. The bill was passed at a state level but was stopped by the Senate.
Audience: Anyone who has an opinion about gay rights in America.
Purpose: To criticize people who are still anti-gay rights.
Subject: The constant movement towards gay rights in America. Pitt's discusses why people supporting the anti-gay movement will eventually fall and that the anti-gay movement has no place in America.
Tone: Pitt's has an indignant tone throughout his article, especially when discussing the Kansas legislators. He also keeps an accusatory and patronizing tone during his article.
Leonard Pitt's wrote "Anti-gay legislators in Kansas: You've been overtaken by history" to criticize the Kansas legislators who tried to pass this anti-gay bill and to show that the anti-gay movement is on the wrong side of history. Pitt's relates this bill to the Jim Crow laws that were used to discriminate against blacks in the late 1800's. Pitt's also wrote the article to try to highlight the ignorance in the anti-gay movement, saying its people are "just dead-enders standing before the onrushing freight train of change, holding up a stop sign." He argues that they need to "get off the tracks" or eventually be seen as the foolish and arrogant, just as the last Civil Rights movement's opponents are seen.
Speaker: Leonard Pitts, a democratic journalist for the Miami Herald. Pitts writes columns regarding social and political issues twice a week and has received a Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He's intelligent, published, and educated. Pitts is fed up with anti-gay agendas in America, especially those by legislators.
Occasion: Anti-gay legislators in Kansas attempted to pass a bill that would approve discrimination against gay people in favor of deeply religious people. The bill was passed at a state level but was stopped by the Senate.
Audience: Anyone who has an opinion about gay rights in America.
Purpose: To criticize people who are still anti-gay rights.
Subject: The constant movement towards gay rights in America. Pitt's discusses why people supporting the anti-gay movement will eventually fall and that the anti-gay movement has no place in America.
Tone: Pitt's has an indignant tone throughout his article, especially when discussing the Kansas legislators. He also keeps an accusatory and patronizing tone during his article.
Leonard Pitt's wrote "Anti-gay legislators in Kansas: You've been overtaken by history" to criticize the Kansas legislators who tried to pass this anti-gay bill and to show that the anti-gay movement is on the wrong side of history. Pitt's relates this bill to the Jim Crow laws that were used to discriminate against blacks in the late 1800's. Pitt's also wrote the article to try to highlight the ignorance in the anti-gay movement, saying its people are "just dead-enders standing before the onrushing freight train of change, holding up a stop sign." He argues that they need to "get off the tracks" or eventually be seen as the foolish and arrogant, just as the last Civil Rights movement's opponents are seen.