Same-sex marriage is wrong.

Hi all, let's skip the introductions and just go balls deep into this one.Counter-arguments:1. Marriage has never been about individual rights, but rather about a man and woman giving up their individual rights for the greater good of their family and society. By getting married the man and the woman agree to always stay faithful to each other, giving up their right to have sexual relations with other people. Thousands of years of tradition exist to show marriage as an alliance between two families. The individual desires of the groom and bride-to-be were always subjugated for everyone's greater good. The husband and wife lost their rights to sleep around and have fun, but all of society benefited from the stable family structure they enabled. Gay activists redefine marriage as simply a contract between two people who love each other, which is a revisionist definition of marriage that is runs contrary to its true purpose. Homosexuals wanting to get married cry foul about their individual rights as a couple being violated, but are ignoring the effect it would have on the rest of society." Even if I accepted the premise of this argument as true, which by the way I do not, it would do little to prove your point that same-sex marriage is wrong; it is just a blatant appeal to tradition. Know your logical fallacies my friend; on this site you’ll need knowledge of them. Just because something was done in the past, that is not justification for how they SHOULD be done NOW. 2. Same sex marriage is harmful to children when gay couples choose to adopt. Gay couples who adopt children greatly harm them by depriving them of a mother or father. Studies done by the American Psychological Association (APA) that showed that children of same-sex couples turned out no worse off than their counterparts raised by opposite-sex parents were found to have numerous flaws. A study was done recently by Mark Regnerus, a UT Austin sociology professor that showed that children of same-sex couples were worse off. Another study was conducted by Loren Marks, PhD at Louisiana State University, finding the same flaws in the APA's studies.... Gay rights groups love to state that there is no difference in the psychological and mental well-being of children raised by gay couples, but the evidence from a rational, objective study clearly shows otherwise. Apparently opponents of gay rights love to use studies that have severely flawed methodologies to try and bolster their claims about homosexual parents being harmful to society. Loren Mark;s study, which you use to support your claims, has very flawed methodology that was pointed out by an internal audit of the academic journal where Mark Regnerus' article was initiall published.[1] Mark Regnerus’ suffers similar problems, and was withdrawn from the academic journal it was initall published in [1]. The video that I have attached to this debate highlights this. Next. 3. Marriage is not and has NEVER been a civil right because it has NEVER been extended to everyone. For example, it is illegal for adults to marry children. Also, adults cannot marry pets, animals, or anything else just because they are attached to it. Although child marriage is still practiced in a few countries today, this does not mean marriage rights should be extended to those people. Therefore it is wrong for gay marriage advocates to claim that marriage is a civil right. Just because you love something or someone doesn"t mean you should be allowed to marry it/him/her. Again this is nothing more than a blatant appeal to tradition, but even as an appeal to tradition it fails; you could use this very argument to posit that voting is not a civil right. Needless to say, I’m expecting you to abstain from voting on this debate because you posited this argument. 4. Marriage is about procreation and the propagation of society. Men and women got married so that they could reproduce and provide a safe, stable environment to raise their children, as well as continuing society. The foundation of this is having the mother and father raise the child. Throughout history the vast majority of children were raised by their married biological parents. By design gay couples obviously cannot procreate, therefore they are not the same as straight couples and do not deserved to be accorded the same status. So far this argument is a lethal cross between an appeal to tradition and an appeal to nature. Therefore, if everybody were gay then society would eventually die off as no one would be able to reproduce. Even if everyone were gay they could still reproduce, they just wouldn’t get to do it with the person that they want to. How exactly does this make gay marriage wrong again? Pro is in agreement that same-sex marriage is wrong. Con is in favor of same-sex marriage. I cordially invite anyone to debate me on this subject.Not quite. You are the one making the affirmative statement, and thus you are the one who has the burden of proving your assertions correct. All that I have to do as con is present counter-arguments which prevent you from doing so. Sources:[1] http://chronicle.com...http://www.youtube.com...