Gay Rights

Thank you for getting back in a timely manner. Best of luck. "one- u don't have to get married by a pastor u can just go to the court house and do it. " This only further helps my point. If one can get married at a courthouse then why should it matter to us religious folk? Getting married at a court house isn't religious. "two- I don't have to prove that god is real, god proves everyday he is real. everyday something happen that science can ex plan. I don't even feel the need to refute this but I will. Even as an apologist this argument fails, it's not that science CANNOT explain something, it's that we don't yet have the tools developed in order to fully explain something, before we discovered bacteria/virus's we did not know why people would get sick, did this mean it was magic? No, it just meant we did not have the proper knowledge or tools at the time. "three- I worry about it cuz this is not a good example for our kids, if any law is to be past it should be to make it illegal to be openly be gay like it is in the military" You are a bad example for our kids. Kids should be taught that love is love despite race/gender etc. Being taught that it is a wrong thing results in things like this: . http://www.bpnews.net... If you don't want to click the link I will write the quote here. "My only regret about being gay is that i repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. " So it seems to me that you advocate teaching kids to hide their feelings if you don't deem them appropriate, and intolerance. Please explain why this is a good thing to teach our kids. I once read a story (I can't find it now) but it went something like this. "Two men walked into a coffee shop holding hands, at the table next to me I heard a little girl ask her mom why the two men were holding hands, her mother replied "because they love each other sweetie. " This is a terrific example of what we should be teaching our kids. ======== Equal Rights ======== The fourteenth amendment states that "no state shall . .. deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws". This statement also supports the fact that under our constitution "All men are created equal" ====== Why not? ====== There are many wonderful people in the world, I even know some myself that happen to be homosexuals, we are hurting them when we look down upon homosexuality, but if we stopped the intolerance everyone would be happy, heterosexuals are not hurt either way, so what is the point? =============== Laws based off morality =============== Like I stated in the previous round, you MUST prove why Christian morality should be used in the making of our laws, otherwise there is no point in quoting the Bible. Before I end my current round, I saw in the comment section your argument that homosexuality is not natural, and that the world would die out if we were all homosexuals. I will refute that now so hopefully it doesn't pop up in the next round. This point is ridiculous, there are roughly 6 billion people on earth, are you think that allowing homosexuality will kill us? Your point is refuted by the simple fact that we are not all homosexuals.