Gay Marriage is Constitutional, and should be legalized.

==Rebuttals==-First off, I would like to indicate the Con did not specify why a decrease in the world population would be a bad thing.It's a "bad" thing because the homosexual population will eventually exceed the non-homosexual population. According to this U.S Census graph [1] on homosexual population. The estimated homosexual/lesbian population is over four million, the homosexuals/lesbians living in partnered houses is over one million, the homosexual/lesbians living in households with children is about three-hundred thousand. Note that this is just a census of the United States, and does not account for any other areas on Earth. This also doesn't account for homosexuals/gays who weren't willing enough to compete the census.-Second, marriage would have no affect on this statistic whatsoever. People who are gay (married OR not) are most likely not going to have biological children of their own regardless.[1] Also, homosexuals may reproduce through artificial insemination or surrogate mothers. Legalizing Gay Marriage will not decrease the world's population in any way.Let's examine each of the ways to artificially reproduce that my opponent mentioned.Artificial Insemination: Artificial insemination, or AI, is the process by which sperm is placed into the reproductive tract of a female for the purpose of impregnating the female by using means other than sexual intercourse or natural insemination. [2]There are two things that make this an unreliable method for artifical reproduction.-Firstly, the success rate is between ten and twenty percent. Obviously this meager success rate shouldn't be relied upon. This requre several attemptes before actually achiveing successful reproduction. The average rate to aquire a reproduction using AI is five to ten attemptes. [3]-Secondly, theres a significant amount of cost to AI's. The average cost for one session is three-hundred to five-hundred an attempt. Since the average rate to get a success is five to ten, let's calcualte the cost. So depending on the situation the average cost would be between one-thousand five hundred and five thousand. Obviously this is quite costly for the mearger rate of AI. [3]Surrogate Mothers: Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman carries and delivers a child for another couple or person. [4]-The cost for Surrogacy is absurd. On average it requires over one-hundred thosand [5]. Depending on the situation the cost could be greater.For example, a surrogacy's fee is normally between ten-thousand and twenty-thousand, any legal or agency costs would generally be around fifteen-thousand to thirty-thousand. -How exactly would if decrease the significance of marriage?The traditonal marriage is between a man and a woman, so enabling homosexuals to marry would decrease the significance of marriage.Also, by saying "further degrade marriage", you are implying that marriage has already "degraded" without the help of the homosexuals.Yes it has. Traditonally marriage was the bonds of a man and a woman throught he course of both of their lifetimes. Now that we have so much divorcing, it has decreased the marriage aspect as well as the seriousness of marriage.As you can see in this graph [6] of England and Wales at 1930 there is next to no divorces, yet in 2010 the amount of dicorces has increased to nearly one-hundred and fifty thousand.Also, the United States has a much greater divorce rate than any other country. [7]==Arguments==-Homosexuals aquire more intimate abuse than non-homosexuals marriage.1) This first graph [8] shows the lesbians/homosexuals with married women and men.As you can see lesbians have the most percent in each catogory. Homosexual men, besides lesbians, have the greatest amount in ever catogory except rape.2) In this graph [9] it shows the relations of lesbians and married woman and the relations of homosexual men and married men who get intimate partner violence.Lesbians get 11.4% of intimate violence, while married women get 0.26%; homosexual men get 15.4% of intimate violence, while married men get 0.05%Sources[1] http://www.frc.org...[2] http://en.wikipedia.org...[3] http://health.costhelper.com...[4] http://en.wikipedia.org...[5] http://people.whatitcosts.com...[6] http://www.guardian.co.uk...[7] http://www.nationmaster.com...[8] http://www.frc.org...[9] http://www.frc.org...