The State of Florida should vote No on the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment in November.

Sorry I missed the last round. I've been very busy between summer semester and work. My first argument was not meant to give reasons why gays should not be allowed to marry, I will do that in this argument. My first round was simply meant to show that your reasoning is flawed. The gay community being extremely artistic has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not they should be allowed to get married. Nothing at all. By not allowing gays to get married we are not, as you claim, punishing them for something. They have the same exact rights as we do. They can marry any member of the oppisite sex they want and I cannot marry a member of the same sex even if I wanted to. What the gay community is asking for is extra rights. They are not being punished in any way, shape, or form. Your crime rate argument is still very weak. First, your basing it off of one study and then apply it to the entire gay community. Second, drugs are still a crime, and buying them still gives money to criminals. http://media.www.nyunews.com... http://www.stopdrugs.org... http://www.washingtonpost.com... The last website contains this quote from officials, "Aside from its growing use in gay clubs meth has made little impact in local jurisdictions." Now just as gay people being artistic doesn't give them the right to get married to a member of the same sex, problems with drugs shouldn't bar that right either. The only purpose of that point was to invalidate your argument. Remember, gays have the exact same rights we do. Your biggest argument is that gays love each other and therefore should be able to express that love to one another by getting married. Hey, alot of polygamist love each other too, but we don't give them the right to get married to multiple people. Same with pedophiles. These people love each other and yet we don't allow them to marry. Therefore, love is not the only qualifier for marriage. http://www.news-medical.net... NLS Annotated Bibliography - Author Search Results -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LANG, KEVIN ZAGORSKY, JAY L. Does Growing Up with a Parent Absent Really Hurt? Working Paper, Columbus OH: The Ohio State University, Center for Human Resource Research, October 1997 Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 3092 Publisher: Center for Human Resource Research It is widely recognized that children who grow up without one of their biological parents in the home do worse, on average, than other children. However, having a single parent is highly correlated with lots of other socioeconomic disadvantages. Therefore, we must be cautious about ascribing the negative outcome to the parent's absence. Using a variety of controls and instruments, we find little evidence that absence of a parent affects income or wealth. Father's presence has a notable impact on cognitive ability, education and marital status for men. For women, mother's presence is important for cognitive ability and education It is very beneficial for children to know both parents. Giving gays the same rights as married heterosexual couples would allow them to adopt. This would be very damaging to our society because children would only know two mothers, or two fathers. They need both a mother and a father. http://www.weeklystandard.com... This website shows more of the damaging consequences of allowing same sex marriages. These facts are from nations that have already tried allowing same sex marriages. This is not speculation or belief, it is fact of what has already happened elsewhere. There is a reason gay marriage is so devastating to a society. GOD created the earth. On this earth he created man. GOD knew that man would need someone to be his helper. So GOD created woman. Not another man, but a woman. Before any other institution GOD created the family. He created it to be between one man, and one woman. 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[a] nor sodomites. This is a verse from the Bible. GOD condemnes homosexuality. To allow any form of sin into society is to invite problems. This would also include the people who are living together with kids who are unmarried. Notice this verse also says adulterers and fornicators. We should not allow gay marriage into society.