My Interview

    I am apart of the Catholic religion. Throughout the nation, it is hard to predict which Catholics are against or for gay marriage because people perceive the information provided within the bible differently. For my interview, I interviewed my religion teacher, Jeff Badillo, to get his opinion of the churches ruling and his own views on gay marriage. He says that the church acknowledges gay marriage as being an unnatural right, however, it is ones civil right to become homosexually married; it can be viewed as a life in sin, however gays are NOT discriminated upon by god. He describes homosexuality as being not intended by god and is immoral regarding the bible, but there are no "laws" against it. I asked, "Do you agree with the churches views? How do you feel?" He came back with the response acknowledging that gay marriage should be legalized throughout the United States. Even though he believes that homosexual marriage is morally wrong, he wouldn't prevent it from happening because it doestn' affect him. Badillo finished his answer with describing himself as a "Social Libertarian."
     The hardest thing that that I had to overcome throughout the whole interview process was making questions to ask my interviewee because I had no idea which side of gay marriage he was supporting.When it was time for me to talk to my teacher after religion class, I was jittery, but once the conversation between him and I got started, I got more comfortable. I learned that he had the same perception as me upon gay marriage, for the most part, and he was very easy to talk. The only difficult thing that I encountered throughout the interview itself was taking notes. Sometimes I got very into the conversation and forgot to jot some of the important information down on paper. However, he was there to help me and was easy-going when I had to ask him to repeat some of the information because I had missed it. Furthermore, the interview was very informative and it was beneficial towards my project by providing me with a different view towards the issue of gay marriage.