Reading Responses for English

I'm taking English 1301 this year, and from the looks of it, my professor is VERY liberal, and seems to be very anti-Christian. As you all know, I am a strong Christian, and along with that comes the fact that I am extremely conservative. So, for class every week, we have to turn in responses to articles that she has us read. I really think that I'm baffling her, because I'm not going to compromise my religious and political views for an A in her class. I know that getting a poor grade for standing up for what I believe in and have passion for, in particular my Faith, will not have any affect on what God has for me because God will not punish me for standing up for Him. Nevertheless, I do ask all of you to pray for me, that I will have the opportunity to minister to my teacher and other classmates; and that I will make a good grade in this class. The Lord has already blessed me with the opportunity to share His love with a girl in the class, and she's reading her Bible and considering accepting Christ! Praise His Precious Name! Please pray for her, her name is Myrah. Please pray for Myrah's heart to be opened to Jesus and for her, her fiance, her family, and friends to be fulfilled with an overwhelming realization of His love. Please pray for them to accept Him into their lives.

But back to what I started this blog post for: My reading responses. Below is a link to the website where the articles are held, and above each response that I wrote is the article's name. Please comment, I greatly enjoy respectful debate!

http://sites.google.com/site/englishjtn/home/assignment-sheets


In Suburb, Battle Goes Public
Although I disagree with most of the things in this article, I agree with it in ONE perspective: Bullying, whether directed towards gay or straight kids, is wrong. This ends my concurrence with this article. I believe that homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, and transgenderism are wrong and a perversion of the natural process of sexual relations that were designed by God. Is it so hard to realize that homosexuality is wrong when AIDS is a life-threatening result extracted from it? I personally feel like Christians are getting picked on in regard to their views concerning homosexuality. If you ask us what our views are, we’ll answer. But, we are commanded by The Lord Jesus Christ to “love our neighbor as ourselves” (Mark 12:31). The quote, “hate the sin, not the sinner” applies in this situation. It is wrong for us to bully homosexuals, but we should NOT be required to endorse their behavior. Asking us to do so defies our freedom of religion.

The Misuse of Life without Parole
Life without parole can seem like a harsh punishment, especially for those who have committed more lax crimes than homicide. I personally do not believe that rapists should be forced to serve life without parole. I believe that they should be emasculated or forced to have a hysterectomy, and serve two to five years in prison. Life without parole seems like a very harsh punishment for almost anyone. However, I do believe in the enforcement of the death penalty, but only in cases of intentional, unprovoked civilian murder. In these cases, I personally believe that the murderer should be killed in the exact same way that they killed their victim(s). Why should we let delusional murderers get off with ‘Life with Parole’? Their victims didn’t get an option to live, so neither should they. You are responsible for your actions. Why should we, as a country, determine to take this self-responsibility away? Those who intentionally commit unprovoked civilian murder should die. Period.

Once again, here's the site:
http://sites.google.com/site/englishjtn/home/assignment-sheets

Enjoy! :)