Juan Barreno Professor Becky Kershman Engl. 1050-03 1 Mar. 2024 Lockwood Phillips born on March 16, 1948, is the owner of his own newsletter website, “Carteret County News-Time”, where he shares his viewpoints. He posts and gives out his views on the Kennedy v. Bremerton School District case. His article is based on the Supreme Court’s decision on Kennedy’s rights, which was his privilege to pray on the field after football games. Phillips argues the Supreme Court’s decision on Kennedy was a major victory for the U.S. Constitution defending individuals’ rights of faith. Phillips has shown an effective way to persuade its readers into his argument by using his view on the First Amendment and the letter sent to Kennedy by the school’s superintendent. In his article, Phillips claims that the…show more content… This evidence supports the topic sentence because he uses emotional language to represent the coach’s actions. He wants the audience to feel that the way Kennedy’s rights were violated by the school district were not right and therefore wants them to feel the same way he feels. The usage of pathos helps him strengthen his argument by attracting the audience's emotions, by making Kennedy’s actions feel heartfelt for expressing his belief in faith. Phillip still uses logos as one of his ways of persuading his audience into agreeing with him. He uses the schools restriction as one of his reasonable pieces of evidence that they had restricted his expressions. He cites, “In response to Mr. Kennedy’s habit of praying on the high school football field following games, the Bremerton School Board sent the assistant football coach a letter advising him that he must remain neutral in the context of religious activity and that his mid-field prayers had to cease. The school was willing to allow him to pray but not in
