Resolved: Gay marriage should be legalized.

I belive the BOP is on you because your making the argument for a new law. "Sub-point 1a: The supplement to tolerance of the homosexual community as a result of legalization of gay marriage has helped to reduce negative statistics in the homosexual community."How do you know that letting them marry would increase exception towards them, it would actually raise it. Many people like me think that the tradition of marriage is between man and a woman, and let's preserve tradition. I wouldn't become a hater, but I garentee those people would join hate rallies trying to scare the homosexuals into not marrying. So legalizing probably not affect the friendliness to them, and it is possible that it would increase it. "Legalization of same-sex marriage has been beneficial to commerce."I do not see how that at all helps the economy. It may hurt it because then gays get tax breaks because their married, and that leads to large deficits then the economy goes down the tubes. (although we have mostly a spending problem lowering taxes because of a the marriage type isn't beneficial). Michael Steele claims that gay marriage bad for small business, the backbone to our economy: http://www.huffingtonpost.com... You didn't post any numbers, only a link, so I will just post the link. "Legalization of gay marriage establishes equality."1. Marriage is not a right in any international law, in any society, and even not in our constitution. Marriage is a privilege, those benefits come with the privilege, and since it is a privilege they DO have the same rights. Not the same privileges, but they have the same god given rights. "Same-sex marriage promotes equality"Already addressed above"Civil unions are not a good alternative."If you look at it is a great alternative. is exactly like marriage except they dont call it that, I know a gay couple that are civil union ed and they just call it marriage. The only difference is that you don't get the tax benefits, once a, those aren't a right, rather a privilege. I will make my own contentions so make it harder for her to fill the BOP.C1: It is not naturalIS sexual orientation determined at birth? NO:A. Dean Byrd, PhD, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine, wrote the following statement in his May 27, 2001 article titled "The Innate-Immutable Argument Finds No Basis in Science," available on the The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) website Narth.com:"There is no support in the scientific research for the conclusion that homosexuality is biologically determined."Timothy J. Dailey, PhD, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Marriage and Family Studies of the Family Research Council, was quoted as having said the following in a June 26, 2006 article titled "Prenatal Effect Hinted for Some Gay Men," published by the AP Science Writer:"We [Family Research Council] don't believe that there's any biological basis for homosexuality. We feel the causes are complex but are deeply rooted in early childhood development. If it is indeed genetically based it is difficult to see how it could have survived in the gene pool over a period of time." So its possible at one time, but overtime through evolution it is impossible, now I must digress.a. Evolution proves a gay not naturalPeople need to continue our race, and being heterosexual allows that. Being gay is a survival disadvantage because being gay means you can't create babies. So people evolved to get rid of the gay 'gene' so they had the survival advantage, being able to produce new humans. If everyone was gay we wouldn't have much of a race of animals, so we evolved to get rid of that disadvantage to survive. So even en explains this. C2: The bible prohibits itThis is a fact. If legalized the Christians would be pissed etc. So this argument isn't a biggie. Becaus eits not much of a reason to keep it non- legalized. C3: Would legalize marriage to a dog. A big argument for the gay marriage crowd is 'it doesn't hurt anyone'. Well people that wanted to marry their dog have the same argument. People in 'love' with their dogs would say doesn't hurt anyone, and we want the same privileges as ya'll. So yeah. C4: weaken the institution of marriageWe have a 50% divorce rate: http://www.divorcerate.org... . And allowing gay marriage would increase the number of friends just trying to save on tax dollars, that is happening right now, and allowing gay marriage would increasethat number. Marriage is a sacred institution, so why get rid of it?C5: Gays live shorterAllowing gay marriage may encourage the gay lifestyle. And that is bad for the reason above:Early reports in the 1980's suggested that male homosexuals had an average life expectancy of less than 50 years - more than 20 years less than the overall male population. However, a Canadian study in 1997 found that male homosexuals have a life expectancy of 20 years less than the general male population (based upon a prevalence of 3% of the male population) A third study, published in 2002, found that the median age of death of 88 homosexually partnered men was 45 years, while for 118 unpartnered homosexual men it was 46 years.This latter study put the average life expectancy of male homosexuals nearly 30 years less than the general male population. Another study showed that, on average, ever-married men outlived the ever-homosexually-partnered by 23 years in DenmarkEver-married women outlived the ever-homosexually-partnered in Denmark by 22 yearsThe U.S. FDA defines the criteria for blood donation. Many forms of sexual behavior prevent blood from being accepted through the Red Cross and other agencies. According to the standard questionnaire, "men who have had sex with another man even one time since 1977," are disqualified from donating blood because of risk of AIDS to the blood supply.However, government statistics show that homosexuals are nearly 20 times more likely to be abused by other homosexuals than by heterosexuals. SO THEIR PARTNER ABUSES THEM MORE THAN WITH STRAIGHT PEOPLE! Sorry capsA scientific study in the Netherlands revealed that homosexual behavior significantly increases the likelihood of psychiatric, mental and emotional disorders. Youth are four times more likely to suffer major depression, almost three times as likely to suffer generalized anxiety disorder, nearly four times as likely to experience conduct disorder, four times as likely to commit suicide, five times as likely to have nicotine dependence, six times as likely to suffer multiple disorders, and more than six times as likely to have attempted suicide.http://www.godandscience.org...I await your response =)