Homosexual civil unions and/or domestic partnerships are harmful to society

I will start by stating a few definitions. Harmful - causing or capable of causing harm Harm - damage: the occurrence of a change for the worse Society - an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization. The vagueness of this debate is the first thing I would like to point out. We cannot point out which society this debate relates to, so for the sake of argument, we shall say it pertains to the United States of America. In order to win this debate, it will take a simple point, followed by a little counter to my opponents argument. The majority of Americans still oppose gay marriage, or, what they don't know what they are talking about, Civil Unions. Gallup did a poll, and as of 2009, 57 percent of people still oppose gay marriage. (1) So, what does this have to do with anything? Harmful is defined as causing or CAPABLE of causing harm, and it has already shown to be capable and causing. One simple church is proof of this. This church is known as Westboro Baptist Church, which is in state of rage over bans on gay marriage being lifted. Westboro Baptist Church has done many protests, many known to be violent, including a protest upon Heath Ledger's funeral. So, is it Westboro Baptist Church doing the harm? No, it would be the civil unions causing these protests, so called marriages, many would say. Society is define as an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization. America applies to this. The culture of America, as I am sad to say, has always involved Christianity. I am not going into this debate on the side of Christianity, in fact, I am appalled by the majority so closed minded. However, this majority is against gay marriage (2). This is in fact doing damage to the American culture, which has in fact been against it since the first documented poll in 1955 (2). Just to put it in simple terms: Gay Marriages/Civil Unions are causing uproar in the American Community. The Majority does not accept, and yet bills still pass legalizing it. The Society of America has been in fact damaged by an outer source, via going against the majority. Now, I shall start acting against Con's argument. First off, your argument appears to have little to do with the topic. You keep speaking of couples, and sexual orientations not being harmful. Though, you might be correct there, this does not have anything to do with the topic you have set. You ask if one's sexual orientation or gender harms society, but is the debate not over whether or not civil unions and/or domestic partnerships. I understand that a domestic partnership does involve a couple, but a couple that lives together, which you have failed to bring up. Anther thing you argued. "If a male/female couple cannot harm society solely based on their combination of gender, than neither can male/male couples or female/female couples. " This is also known as a logical fallacy. If you can provide any evidence that the combination of gender shows no effect, then I am all ears. However, without a male donor, or a female surrogate, you cannot reproduce. So, effectively, these combination of gender also cannot reproduce in order to continue the society through reproduction. (1) . http://www.gallup.com... (2) . http://www.cbsnews.com...