Same-Sex marriage should be allowed in the United States.

Secondly I would like to ask everyone rating to please rate based on: WHO HAD A BETTER LOGICAL ARGUMENT, NOT WHO YOU AGREE WITH. Now for my opening statements: Your position is: "Same-Sex marriage should be allowed in the United States. " The current policy of same sex marriage is popular soverignty, each state has the right to vote if they want same sex marriage or not. If you want to impose a federal requirement to dictate to all the states that same sex marriage should be allowed, the burden of the logical argument if on you, not I. "However, I haven't seen what I consider a justified reason for same-sex marriage to be illegal. " I am not the one wanting to change the legal policy we use for homosexuals, you are. since you are the one who wants to change the way society runs, the burden of the logical argument is on you, not I. Therefore, it is you who needs to come up with "a justified reason" for same sex marriage to be legal. But for the debate, I will give some arguments despite the fact that the burden of the logical argument is on you, not I. 1) If Gay Marriage should be legal, why shouldn't incest marriages be legal? If you will respond by saying that incest has genetic problems for the children, That argument does not cut it, because there are regular heterosexual people with irregular and destructive genes and when they breed, they will almost always sire deformed children. By that logic those people should not have the right to marriage either. Furthermore, The genetic argument against incest marriages will not cut it for another reason: By the genetic argument against incest, Incest couples that show proof of infirtility should be able to marry since there is no genetic threat to children since they wont have any. My opponent stated: "In addition, I'd like to say that banning same-sex marriage has no effect on anyone, except for those who plan on having a same-sex marriage. " By this logic, Incest marriages and Polygamy marriages should also be legal marriages, since they don't bother anyone either. Are you saying if a 50 year old father wants to marry his 18 year old daughter, we should consider that a marriage? 2) If Gay marriages should be legal so should marriages that involve polymay. By your logic, Polygamy should be legally considered a marriage since it doesnt bother anyone. 3) Now let's take it a step further and expand on the previous 2 arguments. Let's say I want to marry my sister, my mother, my brother, and my father all at the same time. In addition, my sister would like to marry me, my mother, my father, and my brother. Furthermore, my mother would like to marry me, my brother, my sister, and my father. You get the picture. According to your logic, we should all be married to each other and have wonderful, crazy, gay-hetero-polygamy-incest. AND LEGALLY WE SHOULD ALL BE MARRIED LOL! that's just crazy. Also, you said homosexual marriage doesn't bother anyone. This is true so long as homosexual marriage is limited to the privacy of their own home and it is not taught in schools. People have the right to teach their children that homosexual marriage is wrong. In contrast someone else does NOT have the right to teach my children that homosexual marriage is right if I don't want them to. If I don't want those people politically influencing my children they do not have the right to do so. (this only applies when the child is under 18 of course) Inagine a teacher telling your children that incest is OK. then your son comes back home from school and starts making out with your daughter, or worse, your wife! How would you feel? Ok those are some arguments, I'll be waiting for your responce.