Gay Marriage should be 100% legal

The weather is awful you are not alone in that feeling. Clarification that it makes it justified, laws are based on the majority of the people, which in this case the majority is against same sex marriage, hence them voting against it. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ My opponent uses the term gay showing that words change in meaning over time. And uses Shakespeare as an example. Shakespeare used very different language, hence comprehending his work is rather challenging in my opinion, but anyhow. Please give some more insight on how the definition of gay changing over time, should mean that the definition of a ceremony should change. Because marriage was designed strictly for joining a man and a woman, the word gay was just a word meaning happy, that changed, along with a whole list of other common terms. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ "So I can't marry someone with Downs syndrome? That's a difference of one chromosome. They have an extra chromosome 21 (usually). Women are just like men, except they have an extra X chromosome instead of a Y chromosome. By your logic, what would you do with someone with Klinefelter's syndrome (XXY) or Turner's syndrome (X). Technically, Klinefelter's is male and Turner's is technically female, but it's the same amount of difference as normal male (XY) and normal female (XX)." Please elaborate on how a mental illness is at all related to a man and a woman, besides the chromosome idea that you brought up. Because, a man and a woman is not an illness, and typical folks with those syndromes have an extra chromosome not simply a different one. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Also, your argument "How about the right to marry who you want?" Mmk..I am a heterosexual, I cannot marry a man either, but i can marry a woman, just like gay guys can, that is the same right. We both have it. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ I will now elaborate on the idea of marriage, and further argue your point. Marriage, created as a religious ceremony indeed between a man and a woman. The fact is, is that because we have freedom of religion we can simply stamp on our name whatever title we would like for the moment. So yes an atheist can get married to a woman just the same as a christian. Anyhow, why should we religious folk change the entire meaning of marriage that WE CREATED so that two people of the same sex can completely contradict and defile our beliefs? Yeah, that tends to make those of us who hold marriage sacred, unhappy. You shouldn't, you can't, society had created civil unions for people of the same sex, so that they can enjoy the same benefits. Just as we created marriage for ourselves. The fact is, is that whatever rights are not given to homosexuals are not given to heterosexuals. No one is receiving special treatment. States are in the regular practice of regulating what we can choose. They equally distribute regulation in terms of Pedophilia, incest, and polygamy. Since we already give the right to the state to regulate our choices, we cannot simply alter one of them. People may be gay as they please, but what you must realize is that marriage is a religious thing so the government cannot tell it what it can and cannot do. If being gay is what makes them happy then so be it, but you don't need marriage to do so. Your whole argument of "pursuit of happiness" is not defiled or restricted by not allowing same sex marriage, because the simple fact is we do not prohibit homosexuality, and if that makes them happy then they have free reign aside from marriage, but if that is really what makes them happy then they do not need marriage.