Gay marriage should be legalized In the United States

Homosexuals should not get married based on religious reasons."At first my opponent states that the Bible is against gay sex, but let's all be serious here. You get married and you have sex" People can get married for non sex related reasons. Homosexuality isn't purely a form of lust, it's a form of love. My opponent confirms that he is arguing that gay sex should be illegal. The odd thing in this is, he seems to think that gay marriage should be illegal because of gay sex, yet he supports civil unions. He's cherry picking information by claiming that married couples will have sex and not realizing people in civil unions will likely have sex as well. His argument can be used against him. Even if it couldn't, I've already shown how religion can have no effect on laws."Marriage is in other religions as well. Such as Islam and Judaism. In Islam they also condemn homosexual marriage"The number of religions who are against it doesn't matter. Religion can't have an effect on laws as I said last round."Well Ladies and gents it simple shows that the federal government cannot make people do things that can harm or interfere with their religion and that means Gay Marriage is now Unconstitutional"I'm not sure where my opponent gets the idea that this somehow makes it un-constitutional. Legalizing gay marriage wouldn't force someone in a company to do something against their religion.Secondly,, if we're going off of supreme court rulings, the supreme court has ruled multiple times that marriage is a fundamental right. http://m.huffpost.com..."Since Marriage is actually an industry, because you can make a profit from it, that means gay marriage is illegal under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act."The Supreme Court ruled that you can't force a company to do something against their religion. This isn't to say that all things that may conflict with someone's religion is illegal... This also doesn't connect with gay marriage. Legalizing gay marriage wouldn't force companies to have sex with someone of the same gender. So my opponents argument here seems to be this:P1: The Supreme Court ruled that you cannot force companies to do something against their religion.P2: Gay marriage is technically an industry.C: Gay marriage should be illegal.The premise that he has to prove for this argument to work is: "Gay marriage forces companies to do something against their religion". He hasn't mentioned it nor has he proven this premise. I also want to point out that we can't say that providing benefits to gay couples is against people's religion, because the examples my opponent has brought up seems to be against gay sex, not marriage.Contention 3: Civil Unions"My opponent brings up New Jersey, but he fails to bring to light how I proved last round that Civil Unions do work and Illinois is a huge example"I had said that civil unions don't work in many states and we need marriage to gave gays equal rights was the rebuttal I gave, yet Con is not responding to this, and is instead pointing out that they work in some states. Regardless of whether they work in some, others need gay marriage legalized to provide equality."He also drops the fact that many more people support Civil Unions compared to Gay Marriage. Heck, even more liberals support Civil Unions than Gay Marriage. Also, look to see how Collage grads support Civil Unions 21% more than Gay Marriage legalization. (charts above as source)"This is an appeal to popularity fallacy... The statistics also have been outdated, as fifty percent of Americans say the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal protection gives gays the right to marry, while 41 percent say it does not, according to a poll recently taken at march 5th 2014. The remaining 9 percent had no opinion either way.http://www.washingtonpost.com...Financial gain from Gay Marriage"This was my opponent's own contention that he brought up in his own case, but failed to bring it up last round. This is a dropped argument and you can obviously see that states make more gains from the legalization of Civil Unions then from the legalization of Gay Marriage that I have brought up in my last round"I'm not sure how my opponent reaches this conclusion. I dropped the argument after realizing that both civil unions and gay marriage can give an economic benefit, and that the difference between the money gained is so small that it wouldn't be worth arguing about. My opponent said that civil unions give money as well, which I agree with, but that doesn't mean that civil unions would give off more money. Saying "This also has a financial gain" doesn't mean that it has a bigger impact. We can't really compare them on anyway, as there's to many factors we need to put into it. Population, current financial state, etc. My opponents arguments have all been completely refuted, while my argument that gays deserve the same rights still stands. Vote Pro.Make good choices.