In Class: Logos

After reading Chapter 4 I found the Surveys and Polls section to be pretty interesting. I kept thinking about a persuasive speech I did my Freshman year against gay marriage. (I did not pick the topic my professor assigned it to me). Anyways when looking for way to persuade my audience I tried to find a percentage of how many people were actually homosexual in America. Well I don't know what I was thinking I would find because of course there is not a national census taken every 5 years of how many homosexuals there are, and even if there was how many would be willing to admit they are? Well of course I found some research with some numbers that were extremely low (proving my point that this is nowhere close to a majority of people that would benefit from getting married). This information can from fairly descent places with pretty good credentials but still I only used them because they showed number I could use to persuade my audience on to my side of the argument.