Gay marriage should be legal in all 50 states.

Because of last round of breaking the "Acceptance Rule", I shall now post the extension of my opening argument. To begin my argument of the topic, Gay Marriage should not be legalized in all 50 states, I will address a few definitions given within the topic. "Gay Marriage" is defined as: "Marriage between partners of the same sex (as recognized in some jurisdictions)". "Legal", or "Legalized" (Plural; Past Tense), is defined as: "Permitted by law". And we can all agree that the "50 States" is the United States of America. All the definitions were defined from the Webster's Dictionary. Previously, in my opening argument, I stated that Gay Marriage should not be legalized because of ensuing a ton of arguments in religious beliefs, and that I would be arguing for it being a state law than a legalization of all 50 states. My opponents first argument, that he brought up, is that Gay Marriage should be legalized because of having a right to marry whoever anyone desires. I agree with that statement, but should more stay as a state law and not a country law. There are only 13 of the 50 states of the United States do not allow Gay Marriage, so the couple has many states that allow the idea. If a same sex couple loves each other that much, they will take the time to move to a state that allows Gay Marriage and get married; otherwise they can happily just be dating. To support this claim of dating, stated in a Huffington Post titled: "10 Reasons it's Totally Fine to Never get Married", when a couple gets married; there is more chaos, than just being a couple. Examples are having to put more "trust" among another, which places more stress upon the individuals; and a higher chance of a divorce rate. Compared to just a simple break up, which is worse? A system that has actually been said to "work" for same sex couples, besides marriage, is a policy titled: "Domestic Partnership". A Domestic Partnership is defined as: "Interpersonal relationship between two individuals who live together and share a common domestic life but are not married (to each other or to anyone else)". Basically a marriage, but not a true marriage; which has actually been more beneficial in a same sex couple, than marriage. With having the ability to date, but not having too much legalization on certain elements compared to a marriage. So if my opponent's main argument is that a same sex couple should have a right to marry each other, why not use this method instead of marriage? Why "light the fuse" against religious beliefs, that will cause more conflict, than this simple solution? In my opponents later argument, he stated that legalizing Gay Marriage would not offend anyone's religious beliefs. Take note voters that for his source that he used the website "Wikipedia". A website that is technically not a reliable source, stated under the Education Association. So his argument about religions agreeing to Gay Marriage, is factually not reliable. While the fact that most religions oppose Gay Marriage, the numbers say that they strongly oppose Gay Marriage. On the website of Public Religion, most religions are against the idea of same sex couples; and to even support this fact even further, in a poll taken last year, it states that 83% of Americans follow a certain religion. The highest being Christianity, and second being Judaism. So why enforce an idea like same sex marriage, where many disagree, instead of just following the idea of a Domestic Partnership? Why start a religious war, when it can easily be prevented? It is true that it was recently passed for same sex couples to get married in all 50 states, but what can come from it? The idea already made impact in numerous churches, so how much longer until this country enforces someone to believe something that they don't? It is rumored that churches will now be required to give a marriage to same sex couples, even though they do not believe their ideology, ripping apart their own area of "Freedom of Religion". Freedom of Religion is the right to believe whatever you want, but who doesn't say that the government will require to fulfill someone else beliefs? Same sex marriage will make this worse, instead of benefiting the country! Because of the lack of characters for this argument, I will have to save of why Gay Marriage is not economically beneficial. Sources: www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/14/reasons-not-to-get-married_n_5274911.html www.freedomtomarry.org/pages/marriage-versus-civil-unions-domestic-partnerships-etc www.npr.org/2015/06/29/418559441/the-economic-reality-of-the-same-sex-marriage-ruling www.gallup.com/poll/159089/religion-major-factor-americans-opposed-sex-marriage.aspx www.publicreligion.org/2015/04/attitudes-on-same-sex-marriage-by-religious-affiliation-and-denominational www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90356 www.cnn.com/2015/02/13/us/states-same-sex-marriage-ban/