gay marriage

I. Economic Rebuttal Yes. The video is from Georgia, but the Georgia GOP convention. That is not a bi-partisan source. You do realize that marriages don't have to be performed with a preacher, right? One can have a wedding with a state marriage official and the marriage will be recognized by the state and be valid. In addition, homosexuals are going to pay the same, if not more for a wedding. And, if gay marriage were prohibited, then, again, like I said earlier, discrimination would increase because it was not accepted. You notice that as more states have legalized gay marriage, the trend toward a disagreement with the morality of gay marriage has decreased on a nationwide and state level. Gay acts of love are still found, and will still be around even with gay marriage prohibition. II. Gay Marriage AIDS Rebuttal And gays don't cheat anymore without marriage? Legalization will not increase adultery among homosexuals. And why does adultery increase the number of people with AIDS in the first place? And still, if gay marriage were legalized, that would drop the gay AIDS rate down to about the heterosexual level. And why aren't gays happy? Because they aren't allowed to get married! Second, I don't see what that has to do with this topic. Also, it dosen't matter who is interpreting the constitution, liberal or conservative, the constitution should always be interpreted correctly, and DOMA is clearly unconstitutional based on the many articles and amendments revelant at hand. You have basically dropped the entire constitutionality argument. III. Bible Argument The Romans argument I have already defeated on the basis of the New Testament. And still, as I pointed out long ago, it dosen't matter what the Bible says because what it does say should not be interpreted into law. Just because something is in the Bible does not mean it should be made law. Also, America has grown more secular. Italy and France are more Christian than the US is, and yet they are spiraling out of control. And the Scandinavian countries are some of the best off, happiest countries in the world, and yet, they are secular. Heck, Turkey is Muslim and they are very good off. "The percent of homosexual behaviour ranges in species from 90% to under 1%. Sometimes almost entire collections are found to be gay, entire troops of Bonobo apes and up to 94% of some populations of Giraffes. All this in nature, not in zoos or in experiments. Of all the species that have been observed to produce gay members, the ratio of gay sexual encounters can be calculated. "Combining these [. .. ] yields a figure of just over 20%: roughly one-fifth of all interactions, on average, are homosexual in mammal and bird species that have [some] form of [sexual same-sex behaviour]"3. Inside zoos, the same story repeats itself. The Metro newspaper, 2005 Feb 14 (Mon), reported on a case hitting the papers that month. "Bosses at Bremerhaven Zoo in Germany discovered most of its male penguins were in same-sex relationships and not producing offspring, despite there being adequate females present. ". But many people discount statistics gathered in zoos because they say that the unnatural circumstances cause animals to be gay, which is what sociologists call "situational homosexuality" in Human beings, such as occurs in prisons, single sex boarding schools, etc. This is why Bagemihl stresses the importance that all his research comes from animals in natural habitats. To summarize, I refer to the newly opened exhibition "Against Nature? " at the University of Oslo: "The National History Museum at the University of Oslo has just opened an exhibition of gay animals. Homosexuality has been recorded in some 1500 species so far, and been well documented in about a third of these cases; it has been known since the time of Aristotle, who thought he witnessed two male hyenas having sex with one another. Aside from illustrating homosexuality among an extraordinary variety of creatures, the exhibition shows how sexual stimulation can vary when, at first blush, the mechanical details of how this might work are not obvious to people attempting to draw analogies from their own anatomy. Male Amazonian river dolphins, for example, penetrate the blowholes of other males; female bottlenose dolphins use their snouts as dildos on other females. Why this behaviour might be favoured by natural selection, though, is a difficult question to answer. In an attempt to do so, the exhibition picks on gay flamingos. Two males raising a chick after one of them had a one-night stand (of sorts) with a female are able to hold a larger territory than male-female partnerships. This suggests a chick with two dads could get more food and therefore have a better chance of survival. [. .. ] One [theory] is that homosexuals assist in the upbringing of their relatives so much that they pass on more of their genes this way than by having children themselves. "[1] "Dr Qazi Rahman, study co-author and a leading scientist on human sexual orientation, explains: "This study puts cold water on any concerns that we are looking for a single 'gay gene' or a single environmental variable which could be used to 'select out' homosexuality - the factors which influence sexual orientation are complex. And we are not simply talking about homosexuality here - heterosexual behaviour is also influenced by a mixture of genetic and environmental factors. " Sources: [1]:. http://www.humantruth.info... [2]:. http://esciencenews.com...