Gay Marriage

J"What has kept many homosexuals from engaging in the homosexual lifestyle? That's right: society saying that it's not okay. When you legalize it, there's going to be more gays coming out of the closet, methinks" That would actually support my argument I think. It's saying that action in tolerable, but it's not: 1. Encouraging people to do it. It's legal to so unhealthy things, but it's not as if the government gets a jolt of glee every time someone eats a snack or smokes. "apologize for not answering your contention made in round 1: that gays not being allowed to marry makes them second class citizens." Apology accepted sir. "Regardless of "sexual orientation," the act of marrying someone of the same sex is an action, an action that is the same for everybody regardless of who you are, and actions can be regulated without making anybody a second class citizen" They have the right to marry who they love. It's not actually taking away the fact that everyone else has a right accept for them. I'll go more into why your reasoning for it NOT being legalized is flawed. "Now, it's always possible that he cherry picked the obituaries of gay people who died early. However, if 6000 obituary articles who cherry picked, and these 6000 were a minority among gay people, how many articles do you think he looked at? The numbers would get absurdly high, and nobody would go through 100,000 articles. Therefore, I find it extremely unlikely that he cherry picked. I think his research is legitimate. So, homosexuality causes people to not live as long. The solution? Don't let them engage in homosexual acts" I need to know how this works. It very likely is cherry picking or just a false cause... There's no logic behind gay people living shorter lives. They would live even SHORTER lives if we suppressed their natural sexuality, as it would obviously cause them stress. "Then, you provided a source which stated that gay men have similar brains to women. Is it not possible that their brains have been wired differently from years of being raised in dysfunctional households" I don't think so... How would that work? Please show a source to prove that a gay persons brain can turn into that of a woman's. "You're right, many gay people are not pedophile. However...you molest girls, you're straight. You molest boys and girls, you're bisexual. You molest only boys, you're gay. People say that such predatory behavior results from the way you were raised, and I couldn't agree more. Such an upbringing also explains how you're gay" I'm not really sure where my opponent is going with this here. He's really just trying to say that some gay people, (Like he admitted not all gays) molest people, therefore they should not have the right to marry. This isn't really a valid argument. The fact that most molestations and rapes are performed by straights nullify this argument. So you see, my opponents arguments revolves around the gay lifestyle involving terrible things, meaning for their own health they should not engage in this life style. However, like I covered before, gay people are honestly gay. It's not as if they could change their sexuality. Con really shoots himself in the foot when he says that gays must have been raised in terrible households, as that would explain why they do such bad things! (Assuming they do...) Gay marriage is not supporting the lifestyle. Supporting gay marriage solely supports gay people having the right to marry. There is no correlation between allowing gay people to marry and allowing gay people to (Insert wicked thought here..). Cons rebuttal to this was saying legalizing something is saying it is okay to do. Even if we assumed that was the case, (Which I believe it's not.) it's support of the marriage, not the lifestyle behind it. So make good choices. :)