Gay Marriage should be legal.

Let us view this problem through a religious lens" Why? This is about people falling in love and getting married, people who may or may not follow your religion, people who may or may not even have any detailed knowledge about what the bible says. Why force your religious rules on those that do not follow them? If your entire debate hinges on this then I fear my boredom will return swiftly. "The goal of sex is primarily for reproduction, so obviously a relationship that IS homosexual is a destructive one." People have been using contraceptives for a good long time now and it doesn't seem to have done much harm. "Secondly, because they are taking away from the available male population, decreasing the amount of heterosexual relationships" Oh ya, Earth is really sparsely populated, why it must be AT LEAST ten feet between me and my next door neighbor, hot damn. Besides, do you honestly think that not letting gay people get married will stop them from being gay? "So this means that homosexual relationships hurt not only themselves, but everyone else as well." I'm pretty sure the pain goes away after a while if you use lube. "First of all, divorce is 1.5 times more common in same-sex marriages for men, and 3 for women. This leads to a ever-growing gash in the social community" You do realise that that statistic doesn't take into consideration the fact that since gay marriage as a concept in the US is so new that each gay marriage rates always spike when they're first legally permitted, these relationships are not as slow-built and time-hardened as heterosexual relationships, they're snap reactions, the buy one get one free of marriages. Neither are they discernible from actual "yeah ok we tried and it isn't working" relationships in the statistics but they do not accurately represent the whole of gay marriage relationships. I also notice how you overlooked the obvious, if you do not want these people to get married, then why are you saying it's bad that their divorce rate is as it is? "This means that when we start to not value the what marriage is, we lose what we have to do before we can get married. We will completely slander the meaning of marriage and soon it will be just another pointless ritual, much like eating of going to the bathroom." You let atheists get married, in addition, marriage is a symbolic thing, it's symbolism won't be lost by letting gay couples do it, if anything it's symbolism ought to increase, it will no longer be a case of "these two over here are better than you" which is a symbolism that can and has been associated with the church and it's attempts to quash gay marriage (because hey, being known as a bigot group sure is symbolic) marriage is symbolic of love and unity, love and unity that your bible and your prophet preaches near-constantly, if you are unwilling to allow that love and unity to extend to all then what good is the book? What good is the prophet? Do you honestly think that you deserve love and unity more than someone else because their beliefs are different to yours? "Second, there is good evidence that societal approval of homosexual practice may increase the incidence of homosexuality and bisexuality" Correction: There is good evidence that societal approval of homosexuality (lets not call it practice, it's not witchcraft for goodness' sake) will make people who are in the closet or in denial about their homosexuality feel better about it and be more likely to express it. "Children are very susceptible to being permanently swayed by the things around them" A fantastic example being the church. "especially homosexuality" and bigotry therein. "If homosexual marriage and acts become a norm, than homosexuality will too" Ya, Ancient Greece was felled by all the kids saying "mommy mommy, I love Patroclus!" Besides, if homosexual marriage doesn't produce kids...how on earth are the kids going to know? seriously? You think a gay guy is gonna start waving his wang at a school while screaming "I put this in Mr Smith who teaches history last night!" and people are gonna let him do it? "gay marriage," as the ultimate legal sanctioning of homosexual behavior, will bring with it a wave of intolerance toward, and attack on the civil liberties of, those who publicly express disapproval of homosexual practice" mmm, yes, I can see it now. "How dare you tell me I can't be intolerant! That's so intolerant of you!" "Finally, this one says that homosexuality, since it's already prejudiced against, this prejudice will increase with unaccepted acknowledgement of the fact. People will not accept this idea, and if the government enacts it, then people will hate the practice even more, leading to even violence and murder of anyone gay or suspected of being so. " Are you kidding? Do you not know how societal acceptance works? The number of bigots would drop. Not rise, drop. You know why? Because people would be born and grow up in a world that says "those two guys over there? They're in love, and we're cool with that" as opposed to "see those two guys over there? scum of the earth, burn them" Your logic is ancient and twisted and frankly insulting to the intellect thus far. "This will lead to violence, chaos, hate" Oh, you mean like this? http://www.mpacuk.org... Or this? http://www.thegaymanifesto.com... Or this? http://www.thegoodatheist.net... Or this? http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com... Or this? http://mmabbasi.wordpress.com... Or this? http://www.politicsdaily.com... Or this? http://freethinker.co.uk... You know I seem to recall a fairly important event in the bible, some guy climbs a mountain and has a chat with someone, then comes down the mountain full of divine inspiration and carrying two stones, and these stones were important. The man was Moses, and upon the two stones were writ the ten commandments, and one of those commandments was THOU SHALT NOT KILL. I'm going to outline precisely why I believe you are, without a shadow of a doubt, nothing more than a puppet of others when it comes to this particular issue. Gay marriage is by no means the worst thing humanity can do to itself, the fact that you failed to accurately provide any sources for your statement that homosexual divorce rates are terrible, nor did you bring to light any country or society actively ruined by gay marriage as you so often claimed, nor did you even think to consider the logic that no gay marriage does not equate to the removal of gay people from our populous. These arguments, literally every argument you used, has been used before, time and again, by the same self-righteous over-controlling morons in the church or in politics. People who were, rather ironically considering your argument, influenced by the church at a young age to believe that gay marriage was somehow a thing that they personally ought to be worried about, That them being damned according to his belief automatically meant that they did not have the right to their own beliefs because god (literally) forbid that anyone's beliefs contradict with the church, even in the pursuit of the love and peace that the church (mostly) preaches. The half-baked, illogical and ultimately hypocritical argument does nothing but list the personal wank fantasy of some total bigot with a fancy hat. Societal collapse because of "the gays", under populated countries because of "the gays", this because of "the gays", that because of "the gays", and so on and so on and so on. Why not blame world