Resolved: Gay marriage would weaken the insitutuion of marriage

happy new years to you. um...ok I'll refute what it there. "gay marriage will likely NOT affect other people's (heterosexual) marriages." It will not but if allowed it would affect the overall definition as they would be counted in the divorce statistics and domestic violence statistics etc. So will it affect heterosexual marriage? No. Will it affect overall marriage through statistics and higher divorce rates? yes. "negatively impact the institution." It will because my contentions go against the meaning of marriage, a monogamous that is supposed to last a long time and it's meaning is to bear children. "Therefore legally recognizing gay marriage and giving those in gay partnerships more rights would strengthen the union " So higher divorce rates, lower commitment, multiple partners, yeah that's gonna strengthen it. *sarcasm* um...now what? lol I am gonna add on to everything then I have nothing better to do. C1: Gays cheat on each other more I am sorry if my case sounds anti-gay but these are the facts :( Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times, Pollak found that "few homosexual relationships last longer than two years, with many men reporting hundreds of lifetime partners." [1] Bell and Weinberg, in their classic study of male and female homosexuality, found that 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more partners, with 28 percent having one thousand or more sex partners. [2] In their study of the sexual profiles of 2,583 older homosexuals published in the Journal of Sex Research, Paul Van de Ven et al. found that "the modal range for number of sexual partners ever [of homosexuals] was 101-500." In addition, 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent had between 501 and 1,000 partners. A further 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent reported having had more than one thousand lifetime sexual partners." [3] Yeah that is a WTF moment. Point proven. C2: gays are more violent towards each other. the risk of domestic violence in a male-male homosexual relationship is still at least 18 times greater. [4] "Emotional abuse was reported by 83%" of its participants." [5] "11% of women in homosexual relationships and 23% of men in homosexual relationships report being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked by an intimate partner". [6] C3: Higher risk of suicide. "For a number of years, researchers have known that one-third of all teenagers who commit suicide are gay. In one sense, this statistic is incredibly shocking...This means that they are 300 percent more likely to kill themselves than heterosexual youth." [7] 36.5 % of GLB youth grades 9-12 have attempted suicide. [8] Gay and lesbian youth are 2 to 3 times more likely to attempt suicide than heterosexual young people. [8] yeah we pretty much agree that they are more likely to commit suicide. C4: lower commitment In The Male Couple, authors David P. McWhirter and Andrew M. Mattison reported that, in a study of 156 males in homosexual relationships lasting from one to thirty-seven years: Only seven couples have a totally exclusive sexual relationship, and these men all have been together for less than five years. Stated another way, all couples with a relationship lasting more than five years have incorporated some provision for outside sexual activity in their relationships. [10] C5: increase in wed lock births Marriage is slowly dying in Scandinavia. A majority of children in Sweden and Norway are born out of wedlock. Sixty percent of first-born children in Denmark have unmarried parents. Not coincidentally, these countries have had something close to full gay marriage for a decade or more. [11] Same-sex marriage has locked in and reinforced an existing Scandinavian trend toward the separation of marriage and parenthood. [11] there's an answer to how it affects marriage. C6 higher divorce rates among gays In a 2005 study it was found that 60 % of all opposite-sex marriages in the US ended in divorce in the first decade and 80 % in the first 20 years. [9] from a pro-gay site. I do not feel like continuing. ==conclusion== it would weaken the definition of marriage as it would raise all of the stats above. urge you to vote pro . sources: M. Pollak, "Male Homosexuality," in Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times, ed. P. Aries and A. Bejin, translated by Anthony Forster (New York, NY: B. Blackwell, 1985) [1] A. P. Bell and M. S. Weinberg, Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), pp. 308, 309 [2] Paul Van de Ven et al., "A Comparative Demographic and Sexual Profile of Older Homosexually Active Men," [3] http://www.familyresearchinst.org... [4] http://www.springerlink.com... [5] http://www.ptsd.va.gov... [6] Ciara Thomas, a writer for the website HealthyPlace.com [7] http://www.youthprideri.org... [8] http://gaymarriage.lifetips.com... [9] E. O. Laumann et al., The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1994 ): 216. [10] http://www.fachurch.org... [11]