Unit 11 Persuasive speech文本辅助材料2.pdf

There is a speech given on the topic entitled “This House Would NOT Legalize Same- sex Marriage. ” Please read it carefully and answer the questions below it. This House Would NOT Legalize Same-sex Marriage （1）Mr. Speaker, as the opening opposition we recognize that, the genuine love between a man and a man, and the genuine love between a woman and a woman, is as wonderful as the love existing between one man and one woman. But what the government side failed to prove in the debate is that this debate is not talking about whether homosexual loving relationship is legitimate. This debate is talking about an institution of marriage. All of the argumentation has not really touched upon the nature and the essence of marriage as a social institution, and how marriage, as a social institution, needs to reflect the social conception of the institution in itself. （2）From the opening opposition, I’m going to talk about two issues. First, I’m going to talk about why their proposal actually causes more social backlash against gay right movements, especially in the context of China. Before that, several points of rebuttals: （3）The first idea we heard from the prime minister is that the issue of the LGBT is a social taboo in China’s society. Number one, if the issue of LGBT is already a taboo, that means the majority of the Chinese people actually have prejudice against homosexual people? By allowing homosexual people to get married, can you remove the prejudice on the mindset that exists in the majority? Secondly, we say the existing taboo simply reflects that the Chinese society is not ready to accept homosexual relationships. What they are going to do will cause more social backlashes against social minority. He talked about the idea of HIV, if you want to prevent the spreading of HIV, you can simply use condoms when you are having sex. HIV is