Gay Marriage Should Be Legalized

I will gladly refute my opponent's claims. Also, I will give my last final remark that I feel makes my case and point. "The government chooses to invest in the institution of marriage because of the procreational aspect of it; future citizens keep a society in existence." No, the government does not invest in marriage because of procreation. They invest because they will be able to save money. http://www.boundlessline.org... "This simply is not true. You are certainly not guaranteed a happy marriage in which the other party provides you with financial and emotional support." No one is guaranteed a long, happy, healthy marriage. However, the government also is not guaranteed that through marriage procreation will occur which will keep society in existence. Though the couple may have "potential" to produce offspring does not mean that they will. However, our country has no problem with procreation at all with or without gays being married. "Man + Woman --> Man + Man OR Woman + Woman--> Man + Car Why must marriage be, by definition, between two humans? Marriage is, by definition, a union between a man and a woman, and the opponent seeks to change this definition. Why can't we change the definition again to include human-nonhuman relationships? What allows us to change the definition to include one group but not another?" My opponent feels that simply because I am referring to change the definition to marriage being between a man and woman that by changing to something highly irrational like between a human and a non-human. I am simply requesting an alteration to its wording by stating that it should be between a human and another human. It's easy for people who are straight and feel that this is the norm and we should just continuously live in past tradition. However, change can be made any day. Since the issue has been brought up now, then it should be addressed now and leave future debating of humans marrying cars or other inhuman objects to the side until it actually comes up. For this subject, it is key that we take it one step at a time. "All the study the opponent provided suggests is that more homosexual people had reported themselves as homosexual in the census. This indicates an increase in reports of homosexuals, not an increase in homosexuals themselves." My article clearly states how large the population of homosexuals has increased. It is highly odd to me to assume or think that all of these people have been sitting around since 1990 as being gay and just didn't report the matter. Obviously, the gay community has been increasing as more people have been born and more people have become more sexually aware with their preference. My final remark that I'd like to make is that my opponent mentions throughout his argument how the government has a personal interest in marriage due to the fact that they will most likely procreate if it's between a man and a woman. However, from reading the first article below, a new interest is brought up concerning saving government dollars by cutting back on governmental spending. By imposing legal "contracted" marriages, the government is assuming that the couple will be financial secure and stable enough that they will not need to seek public assistance through welfare, WIC, or any other governmental money. By increasing the number of marriages, the amount of spending is thought to decrease. Therefore, if we allow gays to get married, that number should become even greater and government spending should decrease even more saving a lot more of our tax dollars because now we won't have as many people on public assistance. They can support one another like heterosexual couples do, adopt children whom heterosexual couples have abandoned or passed away, and live a happy life together. Everyone in America deserves to live like this whether they are gay, straight, transgender, bisexual, etc. We are all U.S. citizens and we should all be treated with equal respect and given equal opportunity, for that is what we tell foreigners to get them to migrate to America. http://www.boundlessline.org... http://criticallythinking.blogspot.com... http://civilliberty.about.com...