Gay Marriage Should Be Legalized.

1. Marriage start by religion. It does matter what is the origin of marriage is. If you do not follow what the creator of marriage intended, then it is not marriage. It is something that is similar but change and made up to fit your needs. You then would call it "marriage version 21st century" or something like that. 2. Origination of marriage. Notice that I never stated a place that marriage was originated. I said it was made by religion and social group's culture that do not accept same-sex marriage. 3. Marriage. Whether or not I know the different types of marriages does not matter in the debate. As the contender you are suppose to prove me wrong. Here is a list of the types of marriages and how the originations don't accept same-sex marriage. a. Polygamy is marriage of having more then 1 spouse. The several spouses are still the opposite sex. The several spouses aren't married to each other, only to the husband or wife. i. Example: Mormons, nomadic Tibetans ii. http://en.wikipedia.org... b. Endogamy is marriage within a social group. The social group leader does not approve of same-sex marriage. i. Example: Armenians in Iran, Jews, Old Order Amish, Jehovah's Witness, etc. ii. http://en.wikipedia.org... c. Exogamy is marriage of different breed. This isn't the marriage of same-sex. i. Example: European marrying an African person. Chinese marrying an American. ii. http://en.wikipedia.org... d. Proxy marriage is, in other words, pre-arranged marriages. I strongly disapprove of this. This contradicts the Constitution of the United States. A person should be able to marry who he/she wants. i. Example: Hindu ii. http://en.wikipedia.org... 4. Science and marriage. The concept should not be deserted. Agreed. My response is showing how marriage is not important even to heterosexual people as well. This might be attack straight couple marriage yet also gay marriage as well. 5. Gay marriage already legalized. It seems my resource was overlooked by my opponent. Massachusetts isn't "the only state that fully recognizes same-sex marriage". California, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Connecticut allow same-sex marriage. 6. Future States Many future states have debates about same-sex marriage and if it should be allowed. Already we see Michigan, Florida, and Nevada as one of the first couple states that are giving into the people's demands. Some states have not cooperated with people(Texas, Alaska). Those are very few compared to the current states and future states that allow gay marriage. 7. The debate should be based on American law. Agreed. 8. Majority against same-sex marriage. If "more than half of the population" are against same-sex marriage(According to no resource or study), that is for a reason. The majority of people just don't like gay people. It takes time to show people what is right. Rarely do you see a gay couple(without marriage) in any case. Changes people's mind is not the correct reasoning. If the majority of the people decide to pass a law that states all blond haired people must pay tax then that is the law. If I in return do not like it, I can debate about it. If I fail to win the debate, due to people's strong support to my opponent, then there is nothing I can do about it after that. I can either live with it or move to another country that allows same taxation of blond and brown haired people. 9. Bad side of gay marriage. In today's culture being gay and not married has more advantages then being gay and married to a person of the same sex. You will be discriminated and looked down upon. NOT because you are gay, but because you married gaily. Here I will restate my resources' comment: "But, did you know most civil, domestic and registered partnership laws around the world provide fewer benefits than full marriage? So in many cases, life-long partners are denied some or all of the rights of marriage simply based on their sexual orientation." Therefore, getting married can have bad sides to it. The whole reason gay people get married is because of psychological satisfaction or because of legal benefits. Yet some may not have same legal benefits as straight people can. This contradicts the reason to even get married in the first place. a.http://gaylife.about.com... Conclusion: I have shown why same-sex marriage isn't marriage since the originally principals are not stated in the marriage. I have shown the types of marriages still do not allow same-sex marriage. I have restated my response that same-sex marriage is already being allowed and will be allowed soon enough, making this debate pointless. In our culture, people look more downly upon same-sex marriage then same-sex relationships and there are less benefits in same-sex marriage then straight people have. Therefore, making same-sex marriage pointless as well as the debate. Thank you.