gay marriage should be legalized in the US

That was a great retort Con but unfortunately is too easy to counter. Con said in the first round that the "state involvement at any level is of benefit to the citizenry" And I countered that argument with 2 out of many facts that people learn in high school, about how States being wrong with their ideas of what is right and wrong in the past, and just leave it to the individual state, and there for bringing us back to the real subject at hand, which is for the legalization of gay marriage in the US (not states) Con didn"t seem to understand this so I am clarifying why I said this. Next comes adoption, Con again doesn"t seem to understand my argument "I was adopted and know firsthand on how big the need for more people to adopt, this is because the biological parents (a man/woman relationship), are unable to take care of their own children so why should we say that a perfectly good homosexual couple should not adopt in which having the legal status of married can help them care for the children and make the best environment possible." I don"t understand how this didn"t make sense to him, saying that there aren"t enough people adopting and by Cons own admission married couples make better households then an unmarried couple, so this actually helps my argument. For more proof on why gay/lesbian couples should be allowed to marry just in the category of the need for more married couples to be there to raise adopted children in a better home, consider the following approximately 400,540 children in foster care on September 30, 2011. www.acf.hhs.gov/.../foster-care...Youth in Transition: Each year, an estimated 20,000 young people "age out" of the U.S. foster care system. Many are only 18 years old and still need support and services. Several foster care alumni studies show that without a lifelong connection to a caring adult, these older youth are often left vulnerable to a host of adverse situations: www.unmarried.org/parents-children/adoption And there are always more on the way to being put into the system by the day Currently, about half (51%) of the 6.6 million pregnancies in the United States each year (3.4 million) are unintended-www.guttmacher.org/.../FB-Unintended-Pregnancy Countless unmarried partners (same-sex or different-sex) are co-parenting a child or children, but frequently only one partner has a legal relationship to the child(ren). In many cases it would benefit the child(ren) to have a legal relationship to both parents. Many, but not all, states allow "co-parent adoptions" or "second parent adoptions," which create a second legal parent-child relationship for these families. Qualified, screened single and LGBT people can be excellent parents. Having a single or LGBT parent could be in an individual child"s best interest, for a number of reasons. www.unmarried.org/parents-children/adoption So hopefully you see my point that by getting rid of the problems that people who are legally "single" or unmarried, these people not only don"t put unintentional children into the system, but also have many who are wanting to raise the children that we do have, with parents who are abusive, unwilling, or even just unable to take care of the children that they brought into the world. Now let me ask you something, why would you want them to have a harder time doing this. I believe this also addresses Cons argument that the State gives married couples extra benefits only for the hope that they will have children. I would also like to argue Cons belief that for a good home setting you must have a man and a woman, to get maximum results for raising a child: though I never said that the Government should just take the kid away from their biological parents when the parents are able and willing to care for them, instead (as before) I was saying that gay and lesbian couples can care for those in the system through adding more (stable homes that the parents can have a happy marriage in) But wait there"s more! "In some ways, gay parents may bring talents to the table that straight parents don't. Gay parents "tend to be more motivated, more committed than heterosexual parents on average, because they chose to be parents," said Abbie Goldberg, a psychologist at Clark University in Massachusetts who researches gay and lesbian parenting. Gays and lesbians rarely become parents by accident, compared with an almost 50 percent accidental pregnancy rate among heterosexuals, Goldberg said. "That translates to greater commitment on average and more involvement." www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/16/gay-parents-better-than-straights (ps I"m not saying straight parents are bad in any way) Next I would like to emphasize the benefits of being married that Con responded to with "I concede that a married couple enjoys unique benefits" (There are 1,138 benefits, rights and protections provided on the basis of marital status in Federal law.- www.hrc.org/.../an-overview-of-federal-rights-a...) So on a moral note, why not let gay people enjoy the same rights that everyone ells enjoys. The only source that Con used was http://www.foryourmarriage.org...... I looked at this site and found something very interesting about the main source that your sight used: Patrick Fagan who is the same Patrick Fagan who said "Well, societies have always forbidden [sex outside of marriage], there were laws against it" In this case the Supreme Court said"they can do whatever they like" They just said no, singles have the right to contraceptives we mean singles have the right to have sex outside of marriage. Brushing aside millennia, thousands and thousands of years of wisdom, tradition, culture and setting in motion what we have" Society never gave young people [the right to sex outside of marriage], functioning societies don"t do that, they stop it, they punish it, they corral people, they shame people, they do whatever." thebarkingatheist.wordpress.com/2013/...punish-sex-outside-of-marriage Wow so your source supports going back to the stone age, and punish the "95 percent of Americans that have premarital sex. www.truthdig.com/.../20061219_95_of_americans_have_had_premarital_s Now I have one last question to put down, (mainly because I"m running out of computer time) and that is. How is Gay- Lesbian marriage being legal hurt you? Why are you against it I guess would be the better question. Your turn.