Gay Marriage

"It's really not. With that logic, because it's Legal to protest against the president, the president an government encourages protests against him. Legalization is not the same as endorsement, thus rendering every single one of your statements in this debate false. " Oh yeah it is. When you legalize something, you're saying "this behavior is not so bad that we have to legalize it. " It's the same way legalization of marijuana will probably result in more marijuana users, but that's another debate. 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. I apologize for not answering your contention made in round 1: that gays not being allowed to marry makes them second class citizens. 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. Now, let's move on to your rebuttals. Here's the source for many of my arguments: . http://www.splcenter.org... That's right: I got my arguments from the Southern Poverty Law Center, an outspoken pro-gay organization. I took much of what they said and provided a rebuttal. Also, according to another source, Paul Cameron looked at 6000 gay obituaries. . http://legacysplc.wwwsplcenter.org... 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. 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? Then, you said: "Um. .. Just because a large number of people who happen to be gay do tis doesn't mean it's the new social "Norm" for gays. This still doesn't erase the fact: Most child molesters are straight. .. " 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. Then, about Paul Van de Ven et al, I am quite confident that he existed. Here's a link to his research: . http://www.jstor.org... Before I end my turn, here's a few statistics on gay "marriages. " 11% of gay marriages last one year or less. 31% of gay marriages last 1 to 3 years. 29% of gay marriages last 4 to 7 years. 14% of gay marriages last 8 to 11 years. 6% of gay marriages last 12 to 15 years. 4% of gay marriages last 16 to 19 years. 5% of gay marriages last 20 or more years. Source: 2003-2004 Gay/Lesbian Consumer Online Census Meanwhile. .. 80% of normal marriages lasted at least 5 years. 66% of normal marriages lasted at least 10 years. 57% of normal marriages lasted at least 15 years. 50% of normal marriages lasted at least 20 years. Source: National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2001) Pertaining to sexual fidelity: 85% of women married to men reported faithfulness to their husbands. 75% of men married to women reported faithfulness to their wives. 4.5% of homosexual men in a relationship reported faithfulness to their husbands. Source: The Social Organization of Sexuality, 216; McWhirter and Mattison, The Male Couple: How Relationships Develop (1984): 252-253; Wiederman, "Extramarital Sex," 170. It may be an outdated source, but it proves my point: homosexuals are unlikely to stay faithful to their spouses even if they do marry. For their own health, do not let gay people have homosexual partnerships, much less marriage. They probably will not stay faithful anyway. Married straight couples are much more likely to stay together than homosexual couples, though I admit that divorce rates these days among straight couples are shameful.