Use this as a guide when developing an outline for your persuasive speech
Name: Tylonn G Turner
Topic: Homosexuality in the Modern World's
Thesis: The objective of this speech is to persuade each listener to:
Understand and acknowledge that homosexuality is not a brand new fad more like a group of people who no longer wish to live in the shadows.
Introduction
(Gain Attention, Step 1 of Motivated Sequence)
Gay is the new Black or is it the old White, maybe the other Romans or the quiet Christian, either way the gay is on the way! But technically it was already here.
Develop a FULL SENTENCE transition that leads into your first argument
I am amazed at how homosexuality as been portrayed on TV and on the web over the last few years as if this is something new.
Body
I. Argument One (Establish Need/Prove Problem, Step 2 of Motivated Sequence)
a. Support, Homosexuality has been around since the dawn of time, there are several sources to support the claim.
1. Facts
The use of the term homosexuality in the study of ancient sexuality has found some dissatisfaction, due to the lack of a specific term in ancient literature corresponding to the modern concept of persons who consistently are sexually attracted to their own gender, versus the opposite sex.
2. Information
However, ancient literature refers to those who by their actions seem to have manifested such, especially as regards the male who played the female partner. The primary moral authority on the subject, the Bible, does not explicitly refer to homosexual inclination, though it is reasonable to believe that the word malakos, translated effeminate (1Cor. 6:9) in the KJV may denote homosexual orientation, and men lusting after one another in Romans 1:27 is seen as a typical manifestation of homosexuality.
b. More support
Even the bible states homosexuality is not new according...