Homosexuality and Gay Marriage are Morally Wrong

The proposition on offer is that Homosexuality and Gay Marriage are not Morally Wrong. My opponent (should he choose to accept) has posted some interesting "information" on this issue. Let's examine some of his points: >> "Statistics show that homosexuals remain faithful to one another only 25% of the time, on the other hand, heterosexual couples remain faithful to one another 80% of the time." What statistics? He provides no source for this very suspicious number.... Furthermore, the "statistic" itself doesn mention anything about whether or not the parties are married, which would provide an additional incentive to remain faithful. For all we know, it could say "Unmarried homosexuals are faithful only 25% of the time, and married heterosexuals in their late 70's are faithful 80% of the time." >> "For instance, children whose parents get divorced have a much higher tendency to drop out of school and or go to prison." Good point - we should ban divorce, not gay marriage. >> "So, if the the vast population of humans were to become gay, then this would cause any society, on a large scale, to become corrupt, unnatural, and more violent over all." This is such utter nonsense that it is laughable. It presumes that gays are corrupt, unnatural and violent overall, which is obviously not the case. >> "Children who are missing either a father or mother are much more likely to go to prison by the time they reach adult hood." If lack of a parent is the problem, this suggests that we should ban divorce and ENCOURAGE gay marriage so that there are stable, two-parent households. Do you really think having a penis or having a vagina makes a person in any way more qualified to be a parent?!?! >> "This implies that even though some of the major founding fathers were not Christians, they based there thinking off Christian principles. Therefore homosexuality was never intended to be part of America's society. This is most likely why the issue is not even mentioned in the Constitution." That's funny - judicial review isn't in the Constitution. Neither is the number of justices on the supreme court. Or a right to privacy. Or the right to marriage. Or the right to build interstate highways. Or mention of electricity. Or computers... By your logic, since computers were never mentioned in the Constitution, they were never intended to be a part of American society. Again - this logic is, of course, laughable. The fact that homosexuality was not mentioned does not in any way mean that it wasn't "supposed" to be a part of society. As you said before, much of society at the time as governed by religious principles. Fortunately, we're not so foolish in this day in age. Oh - and my opponent uses as his source "Biblical Family Advocacy" - a site that rampantly spews fundamentalist propaganda - hardly an unbiased source. Funnily enough, BFA has some strange policies, like co-opting the Virginia Tech tragedy to preach anti-gay sentiments (http://www.democraticunderground.com...) and accusing California and Massachusetts of indoctrinating kindergartners with homosexual tendencies (http://www.rightwingwatch.org...) And the other source, Apologetics Press, is riddled with factual errors and circular reasoning. For example, it attacks carbon dating for fossils, when that's not even the type of dating that is used! (http://www.outersystem.us...) In effect, his sources are hardly unbiased, and show his lack of research on this matter. ******************************************** Appeals to the Bible for why homosexuality is wrong are completely inappropriate. The Bible, just like the constitution, is a historical document. All it shows is that 4000 years ago, homosexuality was not something that God (if he even existed) wanted the Jews to practice. I think in the last 4000 years, we've grown up a lot and realized that God isn't right about everything, and that living one's life by a 4000 year old book written by people who thought the WHEELBARROW was cutting edge technology is just plain silly. Furthermore, if what is "wrong" with homosexuality is that it is unnatural, this is simply a function of how people feel about it. Consider that there are hundreds of animals that display homosexual behavior. Is it unnatural for them? Or are they just behaving in a natural way? Of course, it is the latter, as any animal without the capacity for higher reasoning cannot behave in an "unnatural" way. They can behave in patterns that are different from how we normally observe them, but this is just incorporated into our future patterns of observation. But to return to the "unnaturalness" of homosexuality, if one presumes that acting unnaturally is wrong, then it would be wrong for homosexuals to act in a heterosexual manner, because to them, that is unnatural. Again: For heterosexuals, homosexuality is unnatural. For homosexuals, heterosexuality is unnatural. There is no "arbiter" to tell which is "right" and which is "wrong." They're both perfectly acceptable moral behaviors. One is just different from the other. ************************************ Stating that homosexuality is immoral involves the fundamental misconception that anything that is not "natural" is immoral. Appealing to God for this basis is just as wrong as appealing to some deity that loves homosexuality. NEGATED.