Same sex marriage.

POINT #1: HOMOSEXUALITY IS A MENTAL ILLNESS. Purely by definition you can tell it fits the description. "any of a broad range of medical conditions (such as major depression, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, or panic disorder) that are marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, or emotions to impair normal psychological functioning and cause marked distress or disability and that are typically associated with a disruption in normal thinking, feeling, mood, behavior, interpersonal interactions, or daily functioning" However I'll gladly go into further detail. Homosexual teens are 5 times more likely to attempt committing suicide than their heterosexual peers, and apparently that's in a supportive or at least not unsupportive environments. "Teens who self-identify as homosexual are five times more likely than their heterosexual counterparts to attempt suicide, according to a study released last week. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics online on April 18, was conducted in order to determine whether living in a gay friendly social environment affected the risk of a teen identifying as homosexual committing suicide. It found that teens in unsupportive social environments were 20 percent more at risk of attempting suicide than those in supportive environments. " Supposedly they're more likely to commit crime. "concluding that homosexuals are far more likely to engage in illegal and socially dangerous behavior than heterosexuals. In fact, according to the study, homosexuals are over 107% more likely to have been booked for illegal activity than heterosexuals." Homosexuals, when taken into consideration that they make up a small percentage of the population, are more likely to engage in child molestation. "The evidence indicates that homosexual men molest boys at rates grossly disproportionate to the rates at which heterosexual men molest girls. To demonstrate this it is necessary to connect several statistics related to the problem of child sex abuse: 1) men are almost always the perpetrator; 2) up to one-third or more of child sex abuse cases are committed against boys; 3) less than three percent of the population are homosexuals. Thus, a tiny percentage of the population (homosexual men), commit one-third or more of the cases of child sexual molestation." You can come to your own conclusions, but a spike in crime/suicide attempts are very rarely seen in groups that are not mentally ill. POINT #2: MARRIAGE IS A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION. Judaism talked about marriage long before government was involved in it, (1550-1200 B.C) then Christianity, then Islam...so since the major Religions of today all believe marriage is between a Man and a Woman and religion is the core of marriage, the government should stop trying to change the original meaning of marriage by incentivizing being married or being single. Instead they should accept someone's "significant other" of a certain amount of years if they need to know for financial reasons, etc. At most they should allow non-religious civil unions to homosexuals that allow the same rights of being married. POINT #3: MAIN PURPOSES OF MARRIAGE/NATURE AND NURTURE. I think outside of a debate setting most-everyone can agree that the two main purposes of marriage is, symbolic way of showing the world around you that you love this person so much you want to spend the rest of your life with them, (keep in mind what love means, I'll come back to that in a second.) and to raise a family, whether that's from the process of procreation or adoption. so on to the "love" statement, most homosexuals say they just want to be left alone and be able to "love" who they want to, that's simply not so. The definition of love is "affection and tenderness felt by lovers" the definition of "lover" is "a person in love", "in love" means "inspired by affection" and "affection" means "a feeling of liking and caring for someone or something". So that means you can be "in love" with just about anyone you like/care about. What homosexuals want is the sexual attraction, I don't blame them...we see gays are more likely to sexually molest kids, that certainly can't get better with celibacy. However if you follow the "Kinsey scale" (I'll put a link to info about that in my sources) it shows virtually everyone is somewhat Bisexual. Following that, that means there's a large chance homosexuals could find someone of the opposite sex they both love and are sexual attracted to. Now we come to the raising a family/nature and nurture part of this section, I'll even completely ignore the fact homosexuals are more likely to sexually abuse children. Homosexuals should not raise a family for multiple reasons, homosexuality is NOT purely biological, that's absurd (this is the only source I'll post both here as opposed to sources http://www.breitbart.com... ) which means that living in a household with homosexual parents will most likely give you a higher chance of being homosexual, and this is what Milo Yiannopoulos (a gay conservative british journalist) said "Rogan asked who Kohn was, and Milo replied that Kohn is "a Jewish lesbian feminist on CNN" who said famously " well not famously because she"s not famous, she"s just a sort of amusement on Twitter " that she would like a gay kid! She specifically wants a gay kid which I thought was just weird." "Why not just want a healthy kid?" Rogan interjected. "Well why not just want a child or want a smart, athletic, beautiful popular kid?" replied Milo. "No, she wants a gay one. Why? Because she"s a narcissist and she doesn"t care about anything that"s going to happen to that child in its lifetime, any of the unhappy things that might happen to that child." "I"m not talking about bigotry or whatever; let"s say we cure homophobia. Great, but I"m having sex with somebody and cannot create a child with the person I love in the act of intercourse, like that"s kinda rough.. and a lot of people don"t go through their lives thinking about that, but that has occurred to me in the past." and because children who are not raised with a mother and father (how they should be, because there's no other completely natural way to have a kid otherwise) are worse off "Had I been formally studied by same-sex parenting "experts" in 1985, I would have confirmed their rosiest estimations of LGBT family life," Lopez wrote, but then went on to argue against same-sex marriage saying that, "behind these facades of a happy "outcome" lay many problems." He describes experiencing a great deal of sexual confusion due to the lack of a father figure in his life. He turned to a life of prostitution with older men as a teenager." There's also the studies showing kids need both "Fathers tend to play with, and mothers tend to care for, children".Fathers encourage competition; mothers encourage equity. One style encourages independence while the other encourages security".Both provide security and confidence in their own ways by communicating love and physical intimacy." I would continue but I don't have the amount of characters left to quote anything else and provide a source. So this is my opening argument. SOURCES. https://www.merriam-webster.com... https://www.lifesitenews.com... https://www.lifesitenews.com... https://www.frc.org... https://www.blueletterbible.org... https://en.wikipedia.org... http://www.breitbart.com... http://www.cnsnews.com... http://www.cfcidaho.org...