Gay marriage should be legalized

My opponent states that I stated my opinion with no facts or sources to back up my argument. Interesting. The only thing I stated was that gay marriage will upgrade our civil rights and that saying gay marriage shouldn't be illegal because of religious objections would be hypocritical for this country because we're promoting freedom of religion and that's the main thing that's being pointed out when it comes down to gay people; the Bible. These aren't opinions; they're facts. The only opinion I might have included was that it wasn't an issue. Now that I elaborated myself, let's go further more into my opponent's statement. My opponent stated that I said that history didn't matter. I never said history didn't matter; I'm saying that just because it hasn't been occurring in the past, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be occurring today. The things that we did in the past should not stop us from what we should do today. My opponent deliberately ignored my whole entire paragraph on what I believe in and what the Bible is. My opponent just wanted to point out what most Baptist Christians did, trying to make it seem as if I'm a contradicting traitor. The Bible was inspired by God, created by men (men, who are bound to sin). Then, he questions my faith. My church does teach the scriptures my opponent has listed. My opponent stated, quote on quote, "Or is politics more important than God?" My response: Politics has nothing to do with American citizens. If anything, I despise politics. My opponent was the one who brought politics up in the conversation. He needs to decide whether he's going to use politics or God against me (although the Bible was, yet I say again, inspired by God, created by men; every word in the Bible isn't necessarily from God). I never said anything about a politic. I'm a Christian who respects everyone's beliefs and not everyone believes in God; accepting this fact, I believe that we shouldn't make something illegal due to a certain religion; you're making that religion become more powerful than other religions. My opponent brings up the fact that not everyone is born a homosexual and not everyone is born a heterosexual. Good. I'm glad that my opponent has noticed that it's based on "their own personal upbringing". As far as how they were raised, that's not necessarily true; there are people raised as Christians who are homosexuals. Proof: http://biblethumpingliberal.com... Back to that paragraph, people pick to love whoever they want to love. We're taught to love people by the content of their character, by their hearts. Why does it matter if they have the same reproductive organ? My opponent puts words into my mouth that has never been said or he's just putting out some words that contradicts himself just so he can oppose against them. The argument was about whether or not gay marriage should be legalized. I said that gay people should have the right to get married. I didn't say that's it's okay for a cat and a man to get married or anything related to that matter when it came down to legalization of relationships (if a man did have a relationship with his cat, I'm not going to judge; I'm not going to say anything; this topic is completely irrelevant to the argument). Speaking of irrelevance, my religion isn't relevant to this argument. I only mentioned my religion so I wouldn't come off as offensive. Here is some of the pros of gay marriage: http://www.huffingtonpost.com... States that legalized gay marriage have lower divorce rates: http://www.huffingtonpost.com... This is all I had to say for this round. This is a goodbye until round five.