Resolved: Homosexuals should be permitted to marry

My opponent has conceded the debate. "My opponent will argue that they should be able to marry the person of their choice and again I agree." Wonderful, so what are we doing here?On to rebuttals.Firstly, my illustration about sickle cell disease was a contextual summation of the evidence for homosexuality being natural. So it was not "for nought" [sic]."So then I suppose I just won this debate as homosexuals already have the right marry just like every other adult human in the U.S." That's great, but sorry what does the US have to do with anything? I don't live in the US. "They simply have not been afforded the right to marry someone of the same sex". So you agree it's a right which they aren't being afforded?"It would be discriminatory to the rest of the population to allow homosexuals to call their relationship marriage." No it wouldn't. You can still marry a woman, if that's what you want, which I'm curious about but that's another topic. All it requires is a change in definition, which Oxford is already doing: [http://www.christianpost.com...] You then go on this absolutely nonsense treatise about the APA and the DSM. I'm a psychology major so let me educate you.You said homosexuality was likely a result of a "...complex interaction of environmental, cognitive and biological factors". Correct. That's exactly what I said. I'm glad we agree.You then demonstrated your illiteracy and inability to do the following maths sum: 2014 - 2011 = 3 years apart. Your blog posts [read: not peer-reviewed papers, but the opinions of two Christians] are outdated. The new science is in and you have absolutely no peer-reviewed evidence against this. Would you kindly find some evidence and not anecdotal opinion supporting your claim?All of your brimstone propaganda for naught! My "crap research" which I'm presuming you didn't (or couldn't) read was more recent than your blog's opinion, and was conducted by people who know what they're talking about.You went to the old DSMs. I know you know why that's absolutely ridiculous and you're just trying to snooker myself and the audience. Again, don't try to cheat a psych major on the history of the DSM.The homosexuality component of the DSM was justified by a study with massive cultural bias and methodological problems. This was the study used to justify inclusion: [http://en.wikipedia.org...]However, that justification was retracted when a far better controlled and more stringently blinded study was conducted by Evelyn Hooker: [http://www.apa.org...]. Homosexuality was falsely included, and not erroneously omitted. This is because adjusted homosexuals not only display absolutely none of the criteria for a psycho-social disorder (I suspect you don't even know what that means) but they display absolutely no pathological symptoms. The key difference is sex partner preference. Unless you're planning on sleeping with a person, that's totally irrelevant to their character and whether or not they are able to marry. Homosexuality is not only natural, but if it weren't, that would not preclude a person from becoming married. On to further arguments!______________________________________________My opponent has given no reason that two people who are homosexual ought not get married. I have demonstrated that homosexuality is natural, through rigorously peer-reviewed evidence. Of course, my opponent will never accept evidence of any sort, because evidence denies faith. So why don't we take yet another angle!Let's say, hypothetically, that homosexuality is a disorder (although first I'd like my opponent to produce his credentials for being able to diagnose a person with a disorder), just like my opponent will claim anyone with a fetish, or who likes to have sex in any way other than missionary, or who has ever masturbated or given or received oral sex, male or female, is disordered. So pretty much everybody. Let's just say that this is the case. Does this mean that homosexuals shouldn't get married? Of course it doesn't. Let's find out why. Firstly, the legal union between two people in marriage affects those two people, their families and to a certain extent the tax office, etc. It does not affect the ability of two heterosexuals to get married. This is an absolutely flawed line of thinking. Do not be so arrogant as to assume that people will be sucked in by you claiming that it is you who is being discriminated against by gay people.Secondly, perhaps you think it's a sin and they're going to be punished for what they're doing. Isn't that up to them, not you? I refer you to Matthew 7:1-3: "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"By the way, no matter how many times you jam your fingers in your ears yelling "la la la la" you can't pray the gay away, nor the evidence. Just because you refuse to even look at the evidence doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just because a relgious "authorityreligioustold you that there is no evidence doesn't make that true, either. The evidence is available for you to look at, but I suspect you're too frightened to, out of fear that your world view might be mistaken in this area. If you were really so confident and had no insecurity and were really adamant in your faith, then you wouldn't be so afraid to look at the evidence.Open your mind, my friend. Question everything, think critically. You don't have to be a slave to the hate machine. Unshackle yourself of your credulity. Instead of sitting blindly and deafly, regurgitating verbatim everything someone else instructs of you without hesitation, take pause to consider whether what they and you are saying is making sense. Ask what a person's motivation might be to convince you of this. You are considering only a single side of the cube, but the cube has many layers and sides and you have to examine all of them to approach truth. Stop sitting in the shade and come join us in the light of humanity.John 8:32: "And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free".In good health, brother.