Gay Marriage

Forgive me if this seems kind of weak, though I did manage to do a tiny bit of research by typing in "LGBT" instead of "gay." In Round 1, you focused mainly on the rights of homosexual people to marry. However, allowing gay marriage is effectively endorsing homosexuality, so I will dig a little deeper and see what's wrong with homosexuality. Contention 1: Gays don't live long In 1994, Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute co-wrote a paper titled "The Lifespan of homosexuals." According to this paper, homosexuals live to an average 43 years, due to health problems. Before I continue, I would like to say that this paper has been heavily attacked by the Southern Poverty Law Center, as well as "unbiased" Wikipedia. They say that the research was unscientific, because Cameron's source was obituaries from gay magazines. However, I think that his sources were quite reliable. It was a magazine about gay people, written by gay people. Why would this magazine lie? Why would they paint themselves in a negative light like that? It makes no sense. One thing that would have to be examined here would be the number of gay people whose obituaries were used in Paul Cameron's research. If he studied 5 LGBT deaths, then the research would definitely be flawed. However, if he used 100 deaths or even 1000 deaths, then his research must be taken seriously. Unfortunately, I do not know how many gay deaths he examined, but I do not think he would release this research unless he studied many gay deaths. Contention 2: It's all about how you're raised The Southern Poverty Law Center will deny that the way you were raised has any effect on sexual orientation, but they themselves said "a great many studies suggest that it is the result of biological and environmental forces." Hold up! Environmental "forces?" (Factors) As in the environment you're brought up in? You see, effectively they are admitting (though at the same time they'd never admit it) that one's upbringing does have an effect on it. Methinks that if you're sexually abused on a child, it could have an effect on your "sexual orientation." Contention 3: Many child molesters are gay LGBT activists would protest this one more than any other conservative contention on this matter. They saw that most of the men who molest boys are heterosexual when it comes to adult women. I've got two things to say to this: A. You ever heard of a "beard?" Also, they may want children and a wife to do the cooking and cleaning. B. They may be bisexual with a twist. Bisexual is the "B" in LGBT. C. If you molest both boys and girls, then you're also bisexual. Contention 4: Many Homosexual people are promiscuous...big time A man named "Paul Van de Ven et al" (strange name, I know) studied the sexual profiles of 2500 gay people and found that from 10 to 15 percent of them had from 500-1000 sexual partners in their lifetime, 10 to 15 percent of them had 1000+ partners in their lifetime, and that the average amount of sexual partners for gay people was 100-500. I don't know if this guy actually existed, but I found these statistics on multiple places throughout the internet. And if this research was conducted as it was, well, that would put to doubt all denial of homosexual promiscuity. The sexual history of 2500 LGBT people says a lot, doesn't it? An Overview: 1. They don't live long. 2. it's a result of their upbringing opposed to something they were born with, though I admit that it's possible to develop homosexual desires even in a healthy household. 3. A lot of them (though probably not most of them) are pedophiles. 4. Many of them are EXTREMELY promiscuous If you legalize gay marriage, then you are encouraging the homosexual lifestyle,and all my contentions (backed up by studies) say that it's not exactly that great a thing to be gay. I look forward to my opponent's rebuttal.