Analysis Of David Brooks How Not To Advance Gay Marriage

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In “How Not to Advance Gay Marriage” David Brooks analyzes a situation where a gay couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, was denied service for a wedding cake at a bakery, while showing “two possible courses of action, the neighborly and the legal,” to convey the result of each action. While showing pros and cons of both neighborly and legal courses, Brooks juxtaposed between them explaining how “The neighborly course would have been to use this situation as a community-building moment” and how the Legal course “was to take the problem out of the neighborhood and throw it into the court system”. Brooks makes this differential in order to prove to American that they use the legal course of action too much and to show how it is the reason