gay marriage should be legalized in the US

First off I would like to apologies about a mistake I made in the 1st round, where I quoted the declaration of independence , but had put down the Constitution, so my apologies, Now to my rebuttal, though I am arguing that the US government should legalize gay marriage as whole, I will retort to con"s argument that "Typically state involvement at any level is to insure some type of benefit to the citizenry. The state regulates traffic laws to keep citizens safe on the road. The state regulates contracts so that people are not unfairly treated. You get the picture. So what is so special about marriage? " well I would like to argue the point that the state involvement is typically good for the citizenry, like how for the first hundred years African Americans where considered sub civilians and a large part of that they were slaves (by state law) with laws that made them property, yes the state involvement at that level really helped to insure the benefit to the citizenry. Or how the Cherokee nation were having trespassers, vandalizes, and murders come onto their land, and the state of Georgia supported it, and refused to cooperate with federal law even when the supreme court ordered the authorities to have the squatters removed, which in return there were citizens who were murdered in retaliation. Now for the traditional marriage can have kids, but homosexuals can"t argument, I would like to say as a child I was adopted and know firsthand on how big the need for more people to adopt, this is because the biological parents (a man/woman relationship), are unable to take care of their own children so why should we say that a perfectly good homosexual couple should not adopt in which having the legal status of married can help them care for the children and make the best environment possible. Now I have to talk about the rights of married couples have that unmarried couples don"t I found this on. http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com... "In terms of money, unmarried couples aren"t generally on the hook for each other"s debts " but on the flip side, unmarried couples with separate bank accounts have no right to each other"s funds. Which may be fine " unless something happens to your partner and you"re not automatically entitled to pay his bills " or your joint ones. Married couples are eligible for dependent or survivor Social Security benefits. Cohabitating, unmarried couples are not eligible for their partner"s dependents" or survivors" benefits. " So what this is saying is that for couples who can"t marry can"t have many of the benefits of a couple who can. So let"s say a gay couple that has a member in the military and that member dies do to say, a bullet wound, there partner, can"t get any help from the government now that there partner is no longer sending money to them to pay the bills, that person unlike a strait couple would not get the money that they may desperately need and unlike the strait couple would have no choice but to file for bankrupt and destroy their credit. This is sadly an occurrence that is possible to many gay and lesbian couples who have members in the military. You asked why does the state involve it"s self with the type of relationship known as marriage? The reason is that the government doesn"t care if someone is dating someone or not, they"re not going to fill out a bunch of paper work because two people decide they want to sleep together for a little while, but marriage is a completely different kind of relationship, it is the unionizing of two people who decide that they wish to be a family and have privileges that will protect each other in times of crisis. So I must ask you con, as a married man, would you want your wife to have some means to have money coming in for herself and your 2 children if something like a fatal car accident happened to you? I"m sorry but your site . http://marri.us...... Was unavailable for me to look at due to the security restrictions of the internet where I am, so I can"t retort to that. thanks again for excepting this debate and now eagerly await your retort.