Homosexual Marriage (Pokemon Challenge)

Well done. I'll go over his accusation that I made something up first. "Pro has violated conduct. He is making things up. That last bit was not part of my source at all. No where in my provided source did it mention that in some jurisdictions it can be a formal union between partners of the same sex. Pro has deliberately used another source and claimed it as my source to disprove my argument. This is lying and therefore a violation of conduct. To prove it, I will provide a screenshot of the source myself" I am not in fact making this up. Take a glance at the screen shot provided by Con. At the bottom of the picture, you should see a large, light gray arrow. By clicking on that arrow, we receive more information on the definition of marriage. I don't actually know how to put screenshots on DDO but it's there once you click on the light gray arrow. As we can clearly see, Con has *falsely accused* me. His claim that he deserves conduct is obviously rebutted at this point, voters may consider reversing the automatic conduct point due to the false accusation. Rebuttals: I didn't copy paste all of his quotes because most of them say the same thing. Not that that's a bad thing he did. I don't see the need to put the same rebuttal for all of his posts though when I can just say it for one. Anyway: "This is a bad analogy and unfortunately for Pro, this analogy supports my stance more so than it supports Pro's. When people pray at a meal and you choose not to, you are not opposing their beliefs, but simply abstaining from them. However, gay marriage is not abstaining form religious views. The concept of gay marriage strictly opposes them. An example of abstaining from them would be not getting married or calling your bond with your gay partner something else instead of marriage" You don't have to be a fundamentalist in order to follow the bible... Yet again, it's not like it's a bad thing to oppose religious views. It doesn't directly affect the religious communities lives. They can co-exist. "A proper analogy would be that gay marriage is praying with those who are praying at a meal, but saying the wrong prayers and opposing the prayers of everyone else at the dinner table" This would support my argument, gay people don't directly interfere with others lives by getting married. It's more like a Jewish man trying to pray at his house when a Christian claims he can't. "It's actually not. There are 30 basic human rights and I had to memorize them all for Model United Nations. Within the list of 30 basic human rights, the right to marry is not one of them. [1] Pro has made another false and unsupported claim" Con misunderstood again... My stance would support that it's a basic right. The claims would be backed up by the arguments made. "It's completely fine for gays to bond and form a union like a marriage, but again, by definition, they can't call it marriage" Marriage laws in both the U.S.A. and in countries across the globe have been *changed/modified many times* in response to our changing culture and standards. For example, women used to be the property of their husbands, [1] different races such as blacks and whites could not legally marry each other, [2] and some countries even took away the right to choose who you marry... [3] Removing discrimination from the institution of marriage is not redefining it but making it more accessible and fair to others. It's been changed countless times and can be changed again. "Exactly! And that is because many people don't like the idea of a gay relationship being called a "marriage". Say the world adopted a new word for "gay marriage". Say they called it a "Garriage". No one can be justifiably insulted and the Government would enforce new policies for garriages and make it an official thing so that they have the same rights as marriages and also get those benefits you mentioned" "Yet there are. I just made them. This is yet another unsupported claim. All your arguments so far support my stance" I've already said that I would explain them better in the next round, it's more like the title of the argument rather than the actual contention. None of. My arguments support his stance. Thanks. [1] http://www.womeninworldhistory.com... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org... [3] http://www.pbs.org...