Homosexuality and Gay Marriage are Morally Wrong

I appreciate my opponent sending me this challenge. To begin with, my oppenent spends over half of his argument deeming my sources as utter nonsense, but my opponent also never gives any sources of his own to refute my sources. For instance, he wrote that 25% of homosexual relationships ending is a 'suspicious number,' but my opponent fails to show any sources of his own that refute those statistics. And then later in his argument my opponent writes, "In effect, his sources are hardly unbiased, and show his lack of research on this matter." This is not fair to say , and again even if my sources are "biased," it doesn't automatically make them false or unreliable, especially when my opponent has not given any sources of his own to refute mine. What my opponent automatically assumes is that the Bible is an unreliable source for this debate, full of biased and presuppositional hatred against the homosexual community. This is not true. I could spend days researching and writing about why the Bible is a reliable source and through that show all the Bible's wisdom on certain issues. But Im not going to, primarily because it is another debate and not necessarily relevant to the resolution at hand. Now, I know my opponent strongly disagrees with the Bible's teachings on this particular issue, but there are many who don't and even non-Christian historians and scholars agree that the Bible has a great amount of wisdom on this particular issue. Now with this known, my questions to you is this: 1)What makes you believe the Bible is wrong when condemning homosexuality as immoral and WHY? 2)If not the Bible, then what do you base your morals off of? Once my opponent answers these questions only then can my opponent and I begin to really debate the issue at hand. :::Other Sources that Condemn Homosexuality as Harmful to Society::: Children raised by a homosexual couple are being deprived of certain aspects of life that only a father or a mother can provide. To accept homosexuality and everything that is a product of it, such as homosexual marriage and adoptions is also accepting the idea that children do not need a father or mother; children only need one of the two to develop normal sociological skills. Psychologist Dr. Laura A. Haynes writes, "A same sex couple is inherently deficient in ability to prepare a child for the future heterosexual married life that the vast majority of children will aspire to as adults. Two parents of the same sex cannot teach a child how to relate deeply to both sexes in the same way that growing up with married parents—one of each sex—can. Nature is narrow; it sets up every child to have a mother and a father. Same sex marriages intentionally alter the natural situation and deprive a child of one of his or her parents. A child is left with a black hole where a mother or father should be." My opponent states that we should ban divorce instead of homosexual marriage. Although I agree with him in the sense that I think divorce is definitely to common in this country. I believe with the rates of divorce in America it erodes the sanctity of marriage and I also believe that divorce is terrible for children in having to be separated from one of their parents. If we made divorce illegal for homosexuals this would only prolong the unnatural process of raising of children. Also my opponent seems to forget that homosexual relationships are unhealthy, not only for the children, but for the homosexual oneself (more details below), and with no way to legally separate married homosexuals there would be only a higher rate of depression among homosexuals. Also many homosexuals just live together and never get married, but they still have children by adoption or other means, so to make divorce illegal would do nothing to stop homosexual relationships from separating. 38% of male homosexuals said the longest relationship they had ever had was less than one year. The average length of longest relationship and the most frequent response for the men was 2 years. The longest relationship for lesbians was on average thirty-eight months. In contrast, the average heterosexual relationship lasts for 25 years. With the following paragraph written by Dr. Haynes it becomes clear that homosexuality at its core is a twisted perversion, that is constantly full of fear and paranoia. So not only are homosexuals damaging society, but homosexuals tend to destroy there own lives as well, with unsteady relationships and constantly being unfaithful to their partners. It is no wonder a gross amount of homosexuals undergo psychological depression and many end up taking there lives. "Gay researchers (McWhierter and Mattison, 1984) studied 156 homosexual male couples that had been together between one and thirty-seven years. They found that one hundred per cent of the couples had infidelity within the first five years. Couples were still together past the ten year mark only if they accepted the painful reality of infidelity in their relationship. The gay researchers said, "In fact, more than 85 percent of the couples report that their greatest relationship problems center on outside relationships, sexual and nonsexual" (p. 256). Some couples arrive at agreements or rules for outside sexual relationships with "anguish, pain, hurt, and heartache" (p. 258). Further, they said, "Our observations lead us to think that these rules are attempts at control in an area that continues to be an elusive source of anxiety and fear for most couples. They feel that the sexual monster inside of each of us needs bridling. We do not trust it in our partners, and least of all in ourselves" (p. 259)." According to http://tedmathis.blogspot.com..., "A new study in the United Kingdom has revealed that homosexuals are about 50% more likely to suffer from depression and engage in substance abuse than the rest of the population...Dr. Rick Fitzgibbons, a psychiatrist...says there is evidence that homosexuality is itself a manifestation of a psychological disorder accompanied by a host of mental health problems, including "major depression, suicidal ideation and attempts, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, conduct disorder, low self-esteem in males and sexual promiscuity with an inability to maintain committed relationships." Through theses reports one can conclude that homosexual relationships lead to or are a result of alcohol abuse, mental health problems, major depression, suicidal attempts ect... Homosexual relationships are also very unstable and often very short, this has a negative impact on their children and overall, society. Work Cited: http://www.journeychristianministries.org... http://tedmathis.blogspot.com... Thank you, and I look forward to my opponent's next argument charles15