Gay Marriage is Constitutional, and should be legalized.

==Rebuttals==-First off, you have listed the number of homosexuals living in these United States. You have not explained your reasoning as to how this number will increase in any way, regardless of the number of married couples. Your source (1) fails to explain this either. The amount of homosexuals in 1990 has increased sharply from, in 1990 the amount of homosexuals in the United States was 145 thousand, this amount has quintupled to about 780 thousand [1].-Artificial insemination has a 10-20% success rate, [1] while traditional conception only has a 20% success rate. [2]The cost of AI has no relevance to this debate, as I am certain that those who want their own children would consider any price a small price to pay.My opponent made no attempt to challenge the meager rate of AI. The cost of AI has does have signigicance relevance in this debate. Like in many things, cost is a significant factor.-The cost of surrogacy also has no place in this debate, as it is still a viable option for homosexual men to produce their own children.Once again, the cost does have place in this debate. Once again, you have failed to reason why allowing an alternative to something that is "traditional" is worse. Doing anything simply because "That's the way we've always done it" defies logic, especially in a society that is changing as rapidly as ours.*also, permitting homosexuals to marry won't change "traditional" marriage at all- It will not remove their right. I am of the opinion that if you do not support gay marriage, then you should express that by not marrying one of the same sex as yourself, instead of attempting to govern how others should live their lives.*Becuase, firstly, the traditonal marriage was shifted when divorce rates greatly increased. Divorce clearly worsens the instution of marriage, so wouldn't homosexual marriage.The Divorce rate in this country is 50% for heterosexuals. [3]You attempt to use this to argue that marriage has "degraded" enough already, and that homosexuals would only bring this number lower. Only 15% of homosexual men are in relationships lasting more than 12 years [4] according to your first source. This low number is unsurprising in a country where only 12% of its states allow homosexual marriage. Exactly. Since 44/50 states don't have gay marriage. The majority of states have homosexual marriage, so why make it legalized further.Your graph actually provides an excellent point in favor of of homosexual marriage-- note that the number of cases of intimate partner violence DECREASE SUBSTANTIALLY between "lesbians" and "cohabiting/married women", and likewise "homosexual men" and "cohabiting/married women".Cohabiting: Cohabitation [2] usually refers to an arrangement where two people decide to live together on a long-term or permanent basis in an emotionally and/or sexually intimate relationship.This does not refer to homosexuals or lesbians. All it refers to two people.The graph (and the RELIGIOUS organization producing your source) did not care to did not care to compare married homosexual couples to heterosexual couples- rather, it compared "intimate partners" with married couples. If you had examined my source you'd notice it is the Family Research Council. I fail to see how this is a religous source.Communities with active support for homosexuals, including LGBT support groups (and a higher population of democrats...) have gay suicide rates that are on average at least 20% lower in.[6] Heterosexual suicide rates are also 10% lower in these communities.If the simple preservation of human life is not enough to change your mind, then I feel sorry for the condition of your soul. This is not relevant to gay marriage.There once was a time when a similar battle was fought over civil rights and desegregation, where naysayers such as yourself heralded "the downfall of the country" should integration be legalized. Today, those same people are looked at and called "racists" by people of the modern day.Anyone who called disagreers with gay marriage are, quite frankly, idiots.Racism [3]is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination.Homosexuality is not a race, thus it can not be considered racism to disagree with it.There is a gay rights website operated by young supporters of gay rights.You, my opponenet, yourself admitted it was satire, thus isn't a sound source.==Sources==[1] http://igfculturewatch.com... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org...