gay marriage

I would like to start off this round by doing something that may seem to not be related, but it is.Homosexual marriage leads to a rise in homosexual relationships. I would hope that this would make sense to the gentle reader and to my opponent.By making practices such as gay marriage okay, you are letting society have a better outlook on homosexual relationships as a whole. If you did not legalise gay marriage then it would be shunned into obscurity, and by extension so would homosexual relationships as a whole. The legalisation of gay marriage leads to more of these types of relationships to be accepted societally, and thus more of them are able to be made. I would hope that my opponent would agree with me in saying this. More acceptance = more coming out, and that seems pretty good, right?Contention I. Gay marriage harms children.A study found that if a child is raised by a parent who is in a homosexual relationship, they are more likely to start smoking, get arrested, plead guilty in courts and even more likely to have been forced to have intercourse with someone else. These are all net harms to a person's mind; smoking will damage their physical bodies, pleading guilty will damage their future selves, and forced sex will lead to possible PTSD which negatively affects the mind.If we are trying to make the world a better place by legalising gay marriage, why are we allowing these kind of things to occur on a daily basis? From research, it is concluded that the main factor is the sexuality of the parent and if they are in a relationship or not.Contention II. Gay marriage is harmful to society.Those who were raised by mothers who were in a lesbian relationship are 28% unemployed at the time of the study's creation. Compare that to the 20% unemployment rate by gay fathers and 8% for the nuclear family and you have a massive problem on your hands. We all know how important unemployment is -- it is the focus of many debates and will be the focus of many more. If we don't have workers, then what do we really have for the future? Well, by exacerbating and allowing the creation of homosexual relationships, we don't have a real future.Yep, that is right. More homosexual relationships will lead to more children growing up in them, and in turn a very high unemployment rate. Our future is nonexistent, our dreams are washed away... all because of a policy put in place in the name of 'equality'.Contention III. Gay marriage ends more lives than it begins.Let me begin this argument with a simply syllogism to prove that a gay marriage, in and of itself, does not create life.P1. Homosexuality is attraction to the same sex.P2. People of the same sex cannot have offspring.C1. Homosexuality leads to no offspringC2. Homosexual marriage leads to no offspring.This upholds half of my argument, what about the other half?Ah yes, my nifty source here. This source says that children raised by lesbian mothers and gay fathers are more likely to commit suicide when they are older, which is an ending of lives that is directly attributable to gay marriage. Having needless death is a net harm on society and people as a whole, so gay marriage leads to a harm on society and people as a whole.http://www.familystructurestudies.com...Thank you for this debate. I assume that next round will be rebuttals. Looking forward to it.