Should the United States Embrace Gay Marriage

Before I state my arguments, I would first like to thank GCL for allowing me to have this debate with her. I also want to say before I begin my arguments, I would like to give both my opponent and the audience my background history. Mostly, I want to do this because I feel that it has relevance towards the topic that we are talking about. Of course my name is Alex and yes, us Canadians do live in Igloos. Despite not me being an American, I do feel that I'm heavily watching American Politics. I'm also involved in the Community Worker Program which involves heavily working in communities using social activism and some practices from the social worker program. One of course topics that was brought up by my excellent professors was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and rightfully so. The UDHR is one of the most important documents in human history, It focuses on basics that human beings have and are entitled to. The UDHR is a document that brings us together. Unfortunately, a book of desert fairy tale stories based 2000 years ago and written 500 years later is what separates us. (REF) According to Article 16, The UDHR states the following "Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution." This is in fact a document that the U.S has signed and the fact that there are states that still ban gay marriage is absolutely insulting. The U.S. has promised these and while it is legal in some states, it is not in all as promised. By being against the article, you are technically being against the UDHR whether you intentionally or unintentionally knew it. I personally find this very odd an unorthodox compared to what was also promised by the founding fathers of the U.S. Founding fathers promised every human being the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, The U.S. has made both of these promises and has failed to deliver to everyone. Of Course, Gay Marriage is not infringing on your personal right on your right to marry whoever. Gay Marriage is consensual between two males or two female individuals who decide that they love each other and want to spend the rest of their lives together. What's wrong with that? How is that different compared to what a man and women couple? How is that choice that a gay couple chooses to live infringing the rights of a straight couple? It isn't. Not even in the slightest. The Religious usually say that expressing yourself homosexual self is a sin. I would for a moment like to critic the word "Sin". The "Sin" is specifically targeting people who broke God's law. The question that is dependent in order for GCL to win this debate is "Does a god exist?" You you were to take the scientific community's opinion into account, you will find that we cannot make a decision of whether god exists at this time. With that being said, I fail to see the bible as credible. The only thing that has been in the way of Gay Marriage is this intentional/unintentional hate speech which is nothing more than an appeal to tradition. I would like to argue that while some traditions are good, most have a problem of usually being outdated. Back in the middle ages, we would put gay people to death. As science developed and became more advance, we now have a huge understanding of our world. We now realize that we are not the only animals that engage in sexual activity with the same sex. Appeal towards tradition for the most part is because of emotion and I say that emotion is the appeal to ignorance. If you are religious, you will have to make a choice. Can keep the traditions that have kept this nation separated in human rights or I propose another alternative. Let us put our differences aside and have human rights for all. Thank you.