Gay Marriage

I am thankful to be able to debate a topic I'm very passionate about once again, and I hope that this can be a very intellectually stimulating debate! =Framework= Obs1: BOP- The BOP in this debate is entirely on my opponent for a number of reasons. First, since they are advocating a change to the stats quo, they must warrant why this change is necessary. Second, as the Con in this debate I am not given the burden to show why Same Sex Marriage should be illegal, I am only given the burden to disprove my opponent. Not that if this means I do disprove the former than so be it, However I can simply show that there is no reason to change one way or the other> Obs 2: Legitimate warrant- In order for any argument of my opponent to be considered as legitimate, they must warrant why it is true. If they do not warrant an argument I may simply point this out and the argument will be dismissed. =Arguments= I will be going first Con then Pro Con- Contention 1: Benefits of Heterosexual marriage- First of all I want to point out a few benefits to society that only come from heterosexual marriage, and why they warrant two individuals of different genders becoming married. a. Procreation- heterosexual couples are able to produce children, homosexual couples are not. This is important as without heterosexual couples the human race would become extinct. Without homosexual couples we would not become extinct. Thus we allow two people of different genders to be married to prevent extinction, and massive spreading of HIVS from unprotected sex with multiple partners. b. Greater Economic Stimulus- Again as I said before Heterosexual couples are able to procreate; and while it is true that Homosexual couples can adopt and raise children just as well, it simply isn't as common. So when we look at the a Heterosexual couple with at the very least one child, there are products being bought for that child that they are not paying for; this makes the parent's have to spend more money than they make proportionally to the size of the family. And even more so these things are usually spent on necessities such as food, medicine, and toiletries. Whereas with Homosexual couples, they usually only have to provide for the the two of them. This means that less monsy is being spent and put back into the economy; where Same Sex Marriage legalized then this would become more and more common and the economy would suffer horrible I will now show the flaws in my opponent's arguments Pro First my opponent claims that marriage should be all-encompassing in their opening statements; and while I would love to take this argument out of proportion and mention that that means my opponent supports polygamy a pedophilia, I won't since this their first debate. However I do point out thy have no warrant, and if we just begin legalizing every kind of relationship as sanctioned by the term "marriage" with not other reason other than "I think it should happen" then it will be a slippery slope until we are legalizing polygamous and pedophile marriages. Next they compare homosexuals to African American's plight for equality; this is however not a logical comparison as homosexuals aren't a race of people, but an orientation of people. Finally they claimed that by limiting marriage to only heterosexuals we have ostracized a large number pf people from marriage; to this I simply extend my own contention, as well as the attack I've made on my opponent's "all-encompassing" argument. Also as a side refutation to my opponent's statement on love; I'm sure pedophiles would like to marry children, Polygamists would like to marry their true loves, and even those who have sex with animals would like to have Bestiality marriages legalized. Love is not a argument with any weight unless my opponent would also like to try and justify all forms of marriage (as they claim in their opening statements anyway) Back to Pro! (also please note as the voters that there is a 4,000 character limit instead of a 8,000 character limit)