Homosexuality Should Not be Permitted

To begin with, statistics show that homosexuals remain faithful to one another only 25% of the time, on the other hand, heterosexual couples remain faithful to one another 80% of the time. Professionals say that the reason for only 25% of homosexuals remaining faithful to their partners is because homosexual relationships are 'unnatural,' this is not how humans were designed to live and function. Also according to, . http://www.bfamilyadvocates.com......, medical professionals have affirmed that these kinds of sexual relationships are unhealthy. A society that accepts immoral relationships cause children to stumble into immorality. Now, what is being derived from the statistics above is this, homosexuals often adopt children or have children by other means. This could be harmful to the child for many reasons. For one, the gay couple have a 75% chance of separating, since this is true the son or daughter would undergo a lot of emotional distress. For instance, children whose parents get divorced have a much higher tendency to drop out of school and or go to prison. So, if the the vast population of humans were to become gay, then this would cause any society, on a large scale, to become corrupt, unnatural, and more violent over all. For these reasons homosexual marriage should remain illegal and can harm other people. Another reason why homosexual marriage should remain illegal is because of the effects that two men or two women have in raising a child. For instance imagine not having a real father or mother the effects that this would have on the upcoming generation would be catastrophic. Both the father and the mother each play a different but necessary and fulfilling role through out the child's process of maturing physically, mentally and sociologically. Children who are missing either a father or mother are much more likely to go to prison by the time they reach adult hood. According to Dr. Robert A. Muehleisen, a clinical psychologist and a father of three children said that, "Studies suggest that fathers encourage independence and risk taking, and that they are especially adept at teaching problem solving skills" (Johnson, 1997, p. 2). Now that we have observed the damage that a homosexual lifestyle can bring to a society let us move to a different way of looking at the issue. If homosexuality is to be condemned legal, then why should bestiality or polygamy not be condemned legal as well? Shouldn't the people who are in favor of these lifestyles, be entitled their right "to the pursuit of happiness"? I say no, marriage should be strictly between one man and one woman of the legal age. In this debate my opponent and the voters must realize that we live in a free country, but there are still limitations encompassed within our nation, so that America's society may remain stable. According to, . http://www.apologeticspress.org......, "Of those living today in America who were alive 50 years ago, few could have imagined, let alone predicted, that homosexuality would encroach on our culture as it has. In fact, it would have been unthinkable. " If this article is talking about 50 years ago, then it is definitely conceivable that 230 years ago the same (if not more so), idea of homosexuality applied. So when our founding fathers wrote the Constitution, experts presume that the idea of homosexuality was not even in the back of their minds. In fact, many of the founding fathers were Christians, and even if they weren't many of them based their ideas off Christianity nun the less. For example, historians have come to believe that Thomas Jefferson was not a Christian and yet he said "The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man. " This implies that even though some of the major founding fathers were not Christians, they based there thinking off Christian principles. Therefore homosexuality was never intended to be part of America's society. This is most likely why the issue is not even mentioned in the Constitution. Thank you and good luck, charles15