Should the United States Embrace Gay Marriage

I would like to let my opponent know that I acknowledge that you are probably stressed with school here and there while trying to get your arguments on the table. I've been there too. Just do the best you can. In the last round, I had described my reasons as to why there should be Gay Marriage in the United States. I feel as if I didn't provide the proper sourcing so I'm putting my sources below and more after I'm done refuting your arguments here. Also I would like to clear up a mistake I made. It wasn't the constitution in which we are guaranteed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness but it was in the declaration of independence. . http://www.archives.gov... Now that I got those out of the Way I can start my rebuttal First of all, I find it kind of shocking that my opponent would be surprised by me criticizing the bible. I find it kind of disappointing that my opponent would automatically claim my view point is one sided all because I criticize the bible. I would like to give GCL an opportunity as to why I chose to criticize the bible and make it part of my arguments. I made it part of my arguments for the notion because one of the major reasons as to why people oppose gay marriage in the United States is because it doesn't reflect their religious beliefs. So yes, Maybe I could have used the Koran as an example but I chose the bible as an example and I don't regret it. There's 2 reasons for that. 1, the majority of U. S. citizens are Christians so I figured also why not use an example that people can relate to. 2, When you look at the statistics of Christians and people who are opposed to Gay Marriage, you will find that there is a correlation between the two. There are very few arguments against the notion of gay marriage to people who are Atheists or Secular. With that comes to mind, I do not consider myself one-sided. If anything, your viewpoint of people simply criticizing the bible is one-sided. There are plenty of political books (from the left included) that are open to criticism. What makes your book any different? Second, When you asked how natural do I believe it right for homosexuals to be united in Marriage? I feel pretty natural about that. How natural does it feel to believe in something? I'm just being smart with you but I know what you are trying to get across. This is probably one of the very well known arguments. To respond to this, this argument is a meaningless one. The definition of Marriage predates the definition of what Marriage means to you coming from your religion. (1) If we were to define what marriage is, it wouldn't be between the one man and one woman (Which contradicts with Genesis 4:19 here which allows polygamy) but rather it is defined by an alliance to one another. Third, just because two are of the same sex does not necessarily mean that you should ban gay marriage. As I've said in the previous round, I've said that we are not the only species on this planet to have sexual intercourse with the same gender. Many animals take part in this. Monkeys, Giraffes, Dogs, Mallards, Dolphins, Lions, you name it. So what does that tell us? It tells us if someone were homosexual, it would be completely normal. (2) (3). Just because you can't pro-create, doesn't mean that we should let that stop people from getting married. So are you telling me and everyone watching this debate is that you can only get married unless you can pro-create a baby or have to pro-create a baby even if your straight who prefers not to have children. As a side note, I'm also getting the feeling that you also don't think that if these people were to adopt, you would be disgusted by that. I don't know about you but I would very much rather have two kind fathers or even two kind mothers than have one male and one female parent, one of which would be sexually abusive towards me. Fourthly, I find your tough love argument hypocritical because the same could be said if the roles switched. Let me propose to you a scenario. The fundamentalists Christians have been against gay marriage but let's say that wasn't true for a moment and imagine a world. Imagine a world where gay marriage was accepted by Christianity and was the majority of what most people would do whereas if you wanted a straight marriage, you were forbidden from doing so. You may say "I demand straight marriage! " and I can easily say "Tough Love! become part of us. " In other words, it's easy to say that when you haven't stepped in the person's shoes. Fifthly, in your last 2 arguments you say that the truth stings. I'm also assuming you also have other truths that you claim to know like that God Exists but your religion is not the only one that claims to have this universal truth and how is it that all of these truths are claim that they are the correct one. How is it also that none of these truths that GCL claims to know show up? If it's not religious reasons as you say, than what other reasons other than religious do you speak of? There are some of my previous argument that I have mentioned that I feel have not been answered and I would like for you to rebuttal those arguments. For example, I would like to see you try and tackle if you can my not infringing your personal right argument. To add to my argument, the gay marriage that I'm asking to legalize is not demanding that churches have to have that option but make civil marriage open to the public so that gay couples can get married at their local city hall. On that note as well, there are surprisingly churches in the catholic church that do allow gay marriage in the states that have Gay Marriage but are forbidden from doing so. Why does your particular denomination of religion have to control what the rest of what others believe and want to do? References (1). http://bigthink.com... (2) . http://www.sciencedaily.com... (3). http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org...