Same-Sex Marriage

It is quite inhumane to suggest that a child should not have a chance at getting adopted just because the parents are of the same-sex. If anything, it is causing more harm because we all know adoption centers aren't good places for a child to grow up in. The gender of the parents have little to do with the child, a child can not understand what a man and a woman is for the first year or two. "In their analysis, the researchers found no evidence of gender-based parenting abilities, with the "partial exception of lactation," noting that very little about the gender of the parent has significance for children"s psychological adjustment and social success." Besides breast-feeding, a child is fine with having same-sex parents. What would make matters worse is that a couple can't get married, you think that would improve their family? There are very good ways of determining percentages based off a smaller population. Based on that, we still learn that heterosexual couples get divorced more often. Your quote: "...We have been left with large, scientifically strong studies showing children do best with their married mother and father--but which do not make comparisons with homosexual parents or couples; and studies which purportedly show that children of homosexuals do just as well as other children--but which are methodologically weak and thus scientifically inconclusive (3)." That quote you pulled out says they have only tested it with straight couples, so they have no idea about how if affects children of gay people. It says right there that children of gays do just as well, not really helping you out. You seem to be disagreeing with God, take a look at this: Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 A Time for Everything 3 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, 6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, 7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, 8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. So yes, God meant for same-sex couples to exist, so they should be able to get married shouldn't they? You are actually proving that the bible is quite hypocritical. Matthew 5:47-48 (KJV) 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Jesus said this, saying that Father (God) is perfect. Nope, this isn't blocking out the rest of the sins. You still can not give a valid reason why God created gays if he knew they would sin. The answer is that God created them, just like he created you and me. You think God makes mistakes? If God is perfect then surely he doesn't make mistakes. Your arguement doesn't make any sense. Once again, you don't seem to understand the population problem. Those articles say by 2300, but we will have most likely run out of room by then. At the rate of population growth let's look at 2216. We should have roughly 15 billion people by then, probably around 20 billion by the time of 2300. You must be indenial to think that we can fit 20 billion people on this planet. "Many scientists think Earth has a maximum carrying capacity of 9 billion to 10 billion people." If scientists think that we only have room for 9-10 billion people, they are most likely right. Even if they are off, there is no way they can be 5-10 billion people off. Look at this U.K. article, it is interesting: http://www.bbc.co.uk... I never said thatHIV rates weren't high in gay men, it is, and that's a fact. Most of the STD's were spread by straight couples, so it is clearly worse than HIV. 1) Disproved your argument that "Gays don't hurt me, so it's not that bad, right?" I said before that you misunderstood this information. 2) Showed the fallacy in your "God created it, so it's not bad, right?" Never said that. 3) Showed how homosexual marriage is unnatural. Actually I debunked this, biology shows that there are over 450 species with gays. You seem to ignore that fact. 4) Disproved the myth of overpopulation. I disproved your myth. 5) Showed how homosexual marriage results in complication with health (various sexually transmitted diseases). You didn't prove anything, and I don't have the burden of proof. That lies solely on you, Pro. I never said it didn't result in STD's, but you choose to ignore the fact that straight couples have spread more STD's looking back at history. I've proved a good amount, you are clearly just scared in admitting that. We have a word for people like you, homophobe. You clearly are scared of something you don't understand. What you fail to understand is that two, independent, grow adults getting married doesn't effect you negatively. You don't have a right telling people off on who they love. Marriage is the bond of two adults. I hope that you open your mind and see how many of you misunderstand what God is saying. Thank you for taking your time to debate with Sources: http://news.usc.edu... http://www.bbc.co.uk... http://www.livescience.com...