Gays should be allowed to marry.

Thank you for the quotes, now if only the people that said them had looked at the whole situation. Lets start with the obvious mistakes in the title, it states "Gays should be allowed to Marry" First off, gays can marry. They may not be able to marry another man, but they can marry a woman. Second, I will argue as if you meant gays should be allowed to marry other gay men. They cannot simply be allowed to marry other men, simply because it is in the definition of marriage to be between a man and a woman. The only way the proposition would work is if the government completely changed the meaning of marriage to allow such a thing. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Now, to counter his first argument. If you know anything about marriage, it was created by the Catholics between a man and a woman. Other religions simply did not make marriage, they adopted it and changed it to their own liking, hence those few that do allow said marriages. _________________________________________________________________________________________ To counter his second argument, my opponent is simply confused between freedom of religion and morals, he is saying that we should go against the Catholics who created marriage for the few religions that do allow it, why should one religion be put over the other? We cannot simply change a law because the clearly in minority Buddhists want it. The truth is, is that gay marriage is immoral to the ones who create it. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Now to counter his third argument. "Same sex marriage does not threaten the institution of marriage" And this is possible how? If your talking about the institution, then simply look up the history of marriage and who created it, the beliefs of those who create it are strictly against it, so yes it does in fact threaten the institution of marriage. Gay marriage does not worry us, it is frowned upon by those who care about the meaning of it. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Now for my arguments, they are simple enough. We live in a democracy, if you do not know what that means it means that the people choose. Now, how can we change the law in favor of a topic that clearly over half of the population is against? We would have to completely change our government, change sex education and more. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Back to my point that marriage is a religious ceremony. It is. Due to separation of church and state, they cannot mandate eachother. Anyhow, why should we religious folk change the entire meaning of marriage that WE CREATED so that two people of the same sex can completely contradict and defile our beliefs? You simply cannot The fact is, is that we created straight marriage for straight people, and we created civil unions for gays. Deal. The idea that heterosexuals and homosexuals have different rights is simply balderdash. No one is receiving special treatment, we allow the government to regulate lots of things.