Gay Marriage should be legalized.

I'm just going to make a few quick notes first. Apparently my opponent was not down with a clarification round. Oh well. --> The "real" definition of marriage… Well, seeing as you didn't cite your source I question the validity of it. I provided two separate sources and will operate off of the recent one. So I will say that your definition is in actuality an opinion and therefore not a valid source. --> Thanks to my opponent for the bible argument…The resolution doesn't dictate that gay marriage should not be legalized due to the biblical argument behind it, but I will operate off of it if need be. I am not very familiar with the bible but that does not allow me to be biblically ignorant in this debate. However, I will state it as I've stated before. When elected officials take the oath of office, they place their hand on the bible and swear to uphold the constitution, not the other way around. Under the 14th Amendment of the United States constitution, it is unconstitutional to deny anyone any rights on any basis. [6] --> I will also go into the utter ignorance that is the "gay's shouldn't even be allowed to adopt. Because that adopted kid was formed by a man and a women, let's not corrupt its mind to be gay." Alright. Well, I'm going to break this down, or attempt to without getting my own feelings involved. I notice that my opponent is against abortion… Let me ask you, where do you suggest we put the children that are put for adoption? Orphanages are becoming rapidly overpopulated, if two women or two men can provide a great home for a child it should be nobody's business. That is unless you'd rather abort them. Why isn't heterosexuality a sexual perversion? Because everyone in your family is straight? Because everyone you know is straight? Do you understand that we gay folk come from you straight people? We can't reproduce ourselves so we have to come from somewhere. But first, my contentions. I am going to list a few and then elaborate on them in later rounds – I misjudged the character count. A)– Traditionalism a. The traditionalist view of marriage is tired. This view is tired because it has been around for so long and relentlessly abused. If we were still operating off of original traditions people in long term, committed interracial relationships would not be permitted to get married either. Women who had sexual relations with their husbands prior to being married would be stoned to death [see video]. I think that was also in Leviticus. The fact of the matter is the times have changed and it might benefit the church system to get with them. B) – It is irrational… a.It is irrational to deny a group of humans a human right. The California Supreme Court has recently spoken about how marriage is rapidly becoming a human right. If I do recall correctly, I believe the Declaration of Independence reads that all men are created equal and that everyone deserves a chance at life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. By denying a man from marrying his male partner we are impeding the quality of his life, the unnecessary limit to his liberty and depleting his happiness. So not only is it irrational to infringe on someone's basic rights it goes against the culminating point of the documents the United States was founded on. C) – Religion is not an argument… a.Religion is not an argument, it is an excuse. Religion should not involve itself in governmental affairs. That goes against the principle of church and state. There is not a sole universal religion, therefore we cannot claim that gay marriage should not be allowed due the fact that it goes against Christianity. Pam Belluck (NY Times Staff Writer) [8] noted that the states with the highest amount of Conservative Christians also have the highest divorce rate. If the gays are destroying your sanctity of marriage, what are you doing to it? Is it not true that the bible also dictates to love thy neighbor? Or is that only if the neighbor is heterosexual? That is all that will fit for now. I will continue in the subsequent rounds. Sources: [6] - http://topics.law.cornell.edu... [7] - http://www.youtube.com... [8] - http://lists101.his.com...