What are the shared themes or problems that the readings address?
1. Arguments. First, begin with a brief paragraph that summarizes, in your own words, what you understand to be the main argument of each of the texts assigned for the week.
2. Points of Interest. Next, identify two ideas in this week’s readings that you found particularly interesting. Write a brief paragraph about each, making sure to explain why these points grabbed your attention.
3. Connection Paragraph. In a good-sized paragraph (minimum 200 words), discuss one or more ways you think this week’s readings “talk” to each other. Be sure to support and illustrate your points with pertinent examples from the texts. Here are a few questions to stimulate your thinking:
What are the shared themes or problems that the readings address?
How do they tackle different aspects of a given issue?
How do the readings compliment or challenge one another?
-Length: Aim for roughly 500 total words. Include a word count.
-Audience and Voice: Write for your peers in this class. It is appropriate to use first-person voice in these papers (e.g., “I appreciated X’s idea of Y because…”; “These texts made me reconsider…”).
-Citations: Use in-text parenthetical citations to not only document direct quotations but also ideas (Author’s Last Name Comma Page Number or Range). Example: (Williams, 13). If it is clear which author you are referring to, you can simply cite a page number or page range (13–14).
-Quotations: Refrain from using direct quotations aside from distinctive phrases and sentence fragments. Take great care to ensure that any quotations are properly formatted and cited.
-Formatting: Number each of the four sections.
Keep in mind from the readings to write about in the reading response:
-We begin with a chapter called “Getting Religion” by sexual and religious studies scholars Janet Jakobsen (Links to an external site.) and Ann Pellegrini (Links to an external site.) from their 2004 book Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance. This chapter focuses on two cases: Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) and Romer v. Evans (1996). What are these scholars arguing about these two cases?
-Historian Nayan Shah’s (Links to an external site.) 2004 essay, “Policing Privacy, Migrants, and the Limits of Freedom,” offers a critical reading of the Lawrence decision, which decriminalized consensual same-sex sex nationwide, by way of offering a longer history of the policing and prosecuting of “sodomy.” What is Shah arguing in this essay?
-And finally, legal scholar Melissa Murray’s (Links to an external site.) 2016 article, “Obergefell v. Hodges and Nonmarriage Inequality,” offers a critical reading of the 2015 Obergefell decision, which guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry nationwide, by examining constitutional protections for “life outside of marriage” (1208). What is Murray’s argument about Obergefell?
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