Is it a good thing for same sex marriage to be legal in the US

To Nask_sk: First off I"m afraid that I must disagree with you when you say "If it"s good for anybody, it"s good for everybody". A medicine that I use to take for my ADHD, would help me calm down, and focus better, but if anyone ells took it without being like me, they would have the opposite reaction and they would have such a powerful burst of energy that if they have a weak enough heart, they could end up having a heart attack from having their heart trying to catch up with the rest of them. This is just one example out of many, that end up having it to be were something is good for a few people, and not the rest. But all this is beside the point because where not debating on if in some parallel dimension, were everyone was homosexual if we would go extinct or not. What we"re debating is if the letting the homosexuals who are in the real world in the real US, to continue having the right to get married is a good thing or not. (PS I do agree that if we all loved our children and took care of our planet that would be a good thing) As for your answers to my appeal. Love and the law to marriage are two very important parts of a western culture marriage. So instead of the father of a girl basically auctioning off his daughter to the person with the biggest dowry offer, like they used to do. Now a girl can legally marry the man (or woman) that she wishes, without the father"s receiving payment. (If they are over 18). People in love with each other made that happen. So yes, as long as there aren"t any problems, medically, or in getting consent from one of the 2 getting married, I believe that the law should allow it. (And before you bring in statutory rape, I believe that an age limit dose need to be past, before you can give an informed legal consent)(Sorry pedophiles) By the way, my standard of what should be lawful is a case by case bases, but mainly I look at what harm something can do, and what good it can do, then calculate, whether it harms or helps the people that are being effected, in this case the LGBT community. I believe that this helps them a lot, and doesn"t hurt or really effect other people nearly as much or in nearly the quantity. Also almost 2/3 of Americans agree with me!!! www.washingtonpost.com You said that homosexuals and heterosexuals have the same rights, and that if you took one of the restrictions out why not take all of them out. Well I"m glad you asked, if you have been reading carefully, you will note that I said that "as long as there aren"t any problems, medically, or in getting consent from one of the 2 getting married, then I think that the law should allow it." Now I should correct myself with my 1 exception. I wouldn't"t dare infringe on someone"s right to get married because that someone has a disease or a sickness, which just wouldn't"t be right. But with your 4 examples I would have to say that" 1st Bestiality can, A: cause dangerous diseases to be brought onto humans by the exchange of body fluids with another species, being as humans won"t have any natural protection in our immune systems it can spread quickly and deadly, wearing protection doesn"t work with animals. B: more importantly most animals that I know of don"t know enough to be able to give consent, according to scienceray.com (a website that tries to make animals look smart) only some of them at the peak of their maturity and with training could do what a 5 year old dose to pass the time. So I say animals can"t give consent in a human system. 2nd As for incest, many pregnancies by way of inbreeding have a much higher chance of having a miscarriage, or the child having birth defects which has a much higher chance of leading to the child having a short and painful life. So medically it is harmful to a child. 3rd We already are talking about this and we will come to this in time. 4th Polygamy. I have no problem with polygamy as long as the following criteria are met, A, all members of the relationship are aware and willing to be part of the relationship, B, they have their assets in order, to be able to go to the other people in the marriage. This is another debate entirely though so I shall leave it at that. So that is my reasoning against incest and bestiality (by the way Polygamophobe, Incestophobic, and Beastiophobic are not words, and have never been part of the English language) From what you said in your story, it seems to me that you think that homosexuals know almost nothing about the other gender, this is, I"m afraid a mistake that many make. So please let me correct you on one point. Many, if I do not say most homosexuals find out that they are homosexual when dating a person of the other gender, and find that they really just aren"t that into that other gender. (At least this is what I have found while researching homosexuality, and interviewing homosexuals that I have met) So most of them do in fact know of the other gender, and could talk to their heterosexual child about them. Also you are trying to put a spin on the adoption argument, but if I break down your story to its moral, we have, I once knew two women who hated men, and they were lesbian, so I figure that must mean that all lesbians hate men and don"t want to see any men be with any women. Ridicules right? As for my last point of the previous round, the important part of it was the 4 million people part, just to let you know how many people you"re willing to deny from being with the person that they want to be with on what many call the most important day of your life. So now that I have hit the points of your rebuttal, I will finish my part of this round by continuing my argument. This time I will be asking you some questions. 1.If you are against people of the same gender being together in a sexual relationship, what are your feelings on people who are hermaphroditic , do they only have the right to be with people who are also intersex? Or can they be with someone who is half their gender in either direction? 2.Do you recognize how a lot people who are against same sex marriage, argue in similar ways with similar arguments that the people who were against cross racial marriage did? 3.What about people who have a sex change operation done on them, do they get to be with people of the gender that they used to be a part of? Or do they have to be with the gender that they are now? Still making them homosexuals. 4.How dose same sex marriage effect you personally, what harm does it do to you? I leave this to you now, to ponder my questions and try to rebuttal my points, and I hope that the next section will be just as fun to read.