This house believes that gay marriage should be legalized

Rebuttal 1: The bible is not true? The bible is the truth materialized in a book, by the way, The Quran is the constitution of Saudi Arabia, and how knows maybe one day the bible will be the constitution of USA. Your arrogance makes you think that reasoning the only way. I mention the bible because you said that there is not logical reason to be against gays, and the truth is that if you already believe that the bible is the wish of God, then there is a logical path to be against homosexuals. This is so evident that I'm sure you are pretending to don't understand it. I don't think the bible is accurate but I know many people how beliefs the bible is accurate and hate homosexuals because the bible suggest to do so. (some people may argue they hate homosexuals to hide their homosexuality)[1] Rebuttal 2: civil union, on how civil unions are superior to marriage: In the stat of Ireland, is very hard to get a divorce if you are married, but it is far more easy to get it if you are a gay couple. Marriage is a church invention, and is a horrible product, it hurts both of them, and don't allow them to get divorce, for instance you have to applied to get a divorce 4 years in advance, but civil unions are better, a civil union is a contract explaining what will happen in the case of a divorce, and the contract is not poisoned with religious ideology. Rebuttal 3: on reverse discrimination. I don't know in your country, but in my home country, Spain, it is illegal to teach to the kids that gay marriage is not a marriage, and I have quite a lot homosexual friends from both sexes, and I can see that for them thanks to internet finding a partner is very easy. I'm also aware that the countries with the highest levels of homosexuality in which almost every one had an homosexual relation such arab countries, happen to have also dead penalty for homosexuality, who would imagine...? Rebuttal 4: on Argument 2 We all know that pure homosexuality is bad because you can pass your genes to the next generation unless you have heterosexual sex. Legalizing homosexual marriages is helping them to die out. Being homosexual is not like being black, black people can reproduce, homosexual having sex to each other do not. That is not completely true, because I know a few lesbian couples with children, just in case you didn't notice, there are many good reproductive clinics, and there is always the “honey, let's get together and have sex both of us with that man”. This is not a contra argument, I'm just showing that my opponent, don't know what he is talking about when he claim homosexuals can not reproduce. Argument 5: Why are you degrading the level of your references? In the previous round you reference “Science” the second best research journal in the world, but now you only reference web pages, who only God know who wrote them and how accurate they are. (no scientific training, no pair revision, no comments, …). By the way, your links are still not working!!!!!!!!!! Argument 6: Marriage is a horrible legal bound poisoned by religious ideology “marriage is forever, therefore you should not get a divorce ever”, “you have the duty to bring children”... Christ know how bad was to be married, that is why he come to the earth as a gay man with 12 boyfriends. [2] we should not still marriage from the church, it is unfair. Here in Ireland priests usually tell in the news papers that gay marriage should be illegal because married couple pay less taxes, and because the state should promote people to produce babies, because we will get old and we need them to take care of us. The problem is that some people get married just to pay less taxes. Let me tell you what it is fair, We should ban marriage. And only give tax benefits to the people who is taking care of children, no matter how is the biological parent, or if the parents are still married or separated or whatever. MARRIAGE IS AN ABOMINATION! [1]Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human, July 2012 [2] This is not important but I feel like posting a romantic poem, I'm sure even you will apreciat the art of James Kirdup: THE LOVE THAT DARES SPEAK ITS NAME By James Kirkup . As they took him from the cross I, the centurion, took him in my arms- the tough lean body of a man no longer young, beardless, breathless, but well hung. . He was still warm. While they prepared the tomb I kept guard over him. His mother and the Magdalen had gone to fetch clean linen to shroud his nakedness. . I was alone with him. For the last time I kissed his mouth. My tongue found his, bitter with death. I licked his wound- the blood was harsh For the last time I laid my lips around the tip of that great cock, the instrument of our salvation, our eternal joy. The shaft, still throbbed, anointed with death's final ejaculation . I knew he'd had it off with other men- with Herod's guards, with Pontius Pilate, With John the Baptist, with Paul of Tarsus with foxy Judas, a great kisser, with the rest of the Twelve, together and apart. He loved all men, body, soul and spirit. - even me. . So now I took off my uniform, and, naked, lay together with him in his desolation, caressing every shadow of his cooling flesh, hugging him and trying to warm him back to life. Slowly the fire in his thighs went out, while I grew hotter with unearthly love. It was the only way I knew to speak our love's proud name, to tell him of my long devotion, my desire, my dread- something we had never talked about. My spear, wet with blood, his dear, broken body all open wounds, and in each wound his side, his back, his mouth - I came and came and came . as if each coming was my last. And then the miracle possessed us. I felt him enter into me, and fiercely spend his spirit's finbal seed within my hole, my soul, pulse upon pulse, unto the ends of the earth- he crucified me with him into kingdom come. . -This is the passionate and blissful crucifixion same-sex lovers suffer, patiently and gladly. They inflict these loving injuries of joy and grace one upon the other, till they dies of lust and pain within the horny paradise of one another's limbs, with one voice cry to heaven in a last divine release. . Then lie long together, peacefully entwined, with hope of resurrection, as we did, on that green hill far away. But before we rose again, they came and took him from me. They knew no what we had done, but felt no shame or anger. Rather they were gald for us, and blessed us, as would he, who loved all men. . And after three long, lonely days, like years, in which I roamed the gardens of my grief seeking for him, my one friend who had gone from me, he rose from sleep, at dawn, and showed himself to me before all others. And took me to him with the love that now forever dares to speak its name.