gay mariage

I thought this might be a actual debate, and a chalanging one for me so I will go ahead and debate anyway. With the short research I was able to do I did going health reasons as to why it should not be allowed and I will outline them now. Health Reasons of Homosexual Behavior: - " AIDS, Hepatitis A, B & C; many kinds of sexually transmitted diseases; anal cancer & other cancers; higher rates of alcohol dependence; tobacco use at 50% higher rates; eating disorders; high rates of psychiatric illnesses, including depression, drug abuse, and suicide attempts; debilitating health; and reduced life span (up to 20 years). The Archives of Internal Medicine found that homosexuals acquired syphilis at a rate ten times that of heterosexuals. - " One study concludes that 56% of AIDS is found in 2% of the population, - " As of June 2001, 64% of men with AIDS were men who have had sex with men. Bisexual men become a "bridge" for transmission of all these diseases to women and the rest of the population according to Center For Disease Control. In one CDC study 17% of homosexual men had sex with men and women. Seven percent were HIV positive. - There is an extra cost put on to American taxpayers for said health reasons, because the diseases and health risks involved tend to be debilitating. For those that choose to have Children: - " Lesbians will have children through artificial insemination, and homosexual males will adopt or procure surrogate mothers. More than 10,000 studies have concluded that kids so best when they are raised by loving and committed mothers and fathers. They are less likely to be on illegal drugs, less likely to be retained in a grade, less likely to drop out of school, less likely to commit suicide, less likely to be in poverty, less likely to become juvenile delinquents and, for the girls, less likely to become teen mothers. They are healthier both emotionally and physically, even 30 years later, than those not so blessed by traditional parents," says Dr. James Dobson, eminent children's psychologist and author of "Marriage Under Fire." - " Even pro-homosexual sociologists Judith Stacey and Timothy Biblarz report in an American Sociological Review article: Children of lesbians are less likely to conform to traditional gender norms; Children of lesbians are more likely to engage in homosexual behavior; Daughters of lesbians are "more sexually adventurous and less chaste." Lesbian "co-parent relationships" are more likely to end than heterosexual ones. http://www.frc.org... Child Molestating and Abuse have Links to Homosexual Behavior: - " A study of convicted child molesters, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, found that "86 percent of offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual" (W. D. Erickson, M.D., et al., in Archives of Sexual Behavior 17:1, 1988). http://www.frc.org... - " The rate of homosexual versus heterosexual child sexual abuse is staggering," said Reisman, who was the principal investigator for an $800,000 Justice Department grant studying child pornography and violence. "Abel's data of 150.2 boys abused per male homosexual offender finds no equal (yet) in heterosexual violations of 19.8 girls." http://www.worldnetdaily.com... Religious Standpoint: Same sex Marrige and Practices is an offence to god. It is a sin as pointed out throughout the bible and other religious texts. For example: - Marriage is not the creature of any State. Rather, it was established by God in Paradise for our first parents, Adam and Eve. As we read in the Book of Genesis: "God created man in His image; in the Divine image he created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them, saying: "Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it."" (Gen. 1:28-29) - The same was taught by Our Savior Jesus Christ: "From the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife." (Mark 10:6-7). It Is Not Marriage: Calling something marriage does not make it marriage. Marriage has always been a covenant between a man and a woman which is by its nature ordered toward the procreation and education of children and the unity and wellbeing of the spouses. The promoters of same-sex "marriage" propose something entirely different. They propose the union between two men or two women. This denies the self-evident biological, physiological, and psychological differences between men and women which find their complementarity in marriage. It also denies the specific primary purpose of marriage: the perpetuation of the human race and the raising of children. Two entirely different things cannot be considered the same thing. Again this is not my standpoint on gay marrige and I in no way support gay marrige or same sex marrige from becoming completly illegal. I am the only one that actually debated this argument so please vote appropriately. Thank you for the opportunity to debate on this subject from a standpoint that I would normally not. Sources: http://www.tfpstudentaction.org... http://www.wpaag.org...