Numero Cinco

Essentially, Wolfson introduces the court case of Turner v. Safley because it presents an analogous claim to the rights of marriage. His rhetorical strategy in bringing this case to light is to show how a case that could be argued to be similar was successful, thereby implying that his own cause would or should be successful if brought to court. Turner is appropriate to this case because prisoner's represent a small, minority group that was denied its right to marriage by the government. If you see the case the prisoner's brought to court as an example of a group unfairly denied its marriage rights, as the court evidently did because of their favorable decision, one would argue that gays, another small, minority group denied its marriage rights, should be allowed its marriage rights. By presenting these arguably analogous cases in the middle of his argument, Wolfson presents the case that gays should be allowed their marriage rights as the prisoners were.