Gay marriage should be illegal.

Pedophilia is considered/classified as a sexual orientation. This makes me question your "extensive research" or was it just you naming the news giants? If you actually checked the sources I LISTED in my previous arguments, then you would not need to "extensively research". If you can't find my source that I listed after "extensively" searching then I will list it right here. http://www.allenbwest.com... Make sure you go through the entire document, rather than finding the words that you want to see in order to support your argument. Despite debating for 2 days now, and observing you as somewhat intelligent in this topic, I thought you would be able to perceive sarcasm. Let me quote my statement. "I mean, it is just two people making love with each other. How does it bother me in any way? It doesn't affect society at all right? Really." If you are really that naive to not be able to tell sarcasm from seriousness, of if you are just vainly trying to connect bits and pieces of my words against me then I know that your entire argument is opinion based. Anyway, lets continue. Marriage already has enough problems as it is without gay marriage. One of the weirdest arguments in favor of gay marriage goes like so: Marriage is already on the rocks. Look at all the people cheating, look at all the divorces; so why not gay marriage, too? This is like arguing that someone has already accidentally eaten some rat poison; so why not give him some cyanide to go along with it? When someone's sick, you don't make him sicker, you heal him. If marriage has been tarnished in our society -- and it has -- we should be looking for ways to strengthen marriage, not weaken it. Sure, if gay marriage were to become legal tomorrow, you wouldn't have hordes of people who are already married running off to get divorced. But, gay marriage would further cut down on the "sacredness" of it, and make it less of a special event. That would cause people to put less value on marriage, make them less likely to get married in the first place, and make them more likely to get divorced. This leads to more children being born out of marriage and kids from single parents are more likely to commit suicide, take drugs, go to jail, drop out of high school, etc., etc. You can already see this starting to play out in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark and you'll see it happen here, too, if gay marriage becomes the law of the land. Source: http://www.frc.org... To further support this argument, I will quote an argument that I have already used as it seems Contender and many commentators have overlooked this point. Gay marriage, no matter which way you put it..."always denies a child either a father or a mother It is in the child"s best interests that he be raised under the influence of his natural father and mother. This rule is confirmed by the evident difficulties faced by the many children who are orphans or are raised by a single parent, a relative, or a foster parent. The unfortunate situation of these children will be the norm for all children of a same-sex "marriage." A child of a same-sex "marriage" will always be deprived of either his natural mother or father. He will necessarily be raised by one party who has no blood relationship with him. He will always be deprived of either a mother or a father role model. Same-sex "marriage" ignores a child"s best interests." My last piece of evidence and supporting argument is... Legalizing gay marriage advances the "homosexual agenda" and unfairly paints opponents as bigots. The Illinois Family Institute states that if gay marriage is legalized, "Children will be taught that homosexuality is morally equivalent to heterosexuality... that children do not have any inherent rights to know and be raised by a mother and a father... [and] that opposition to the legalization of 'same-sex marriage' was equivalent to opposition to the legalization of interracial marriage. They will be taught that opposition to both was motivated by ignorance and hatred." Lou Sheldon, Founder of the Traditional Values Coalition, warned of the influence on children of the "homosexual agenda," writing that "[o]ur little children are being targeted by the homosexuals and liberals... To be brainwashed to think that homosexuality is the moral equivalent of heterosexuality. We can't let that happen." Source: http://gaymarriage.procon.org...