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Gay Marriage should be legalized

CriticalT thank you for accepting the challenge. Sorry about the issue with word count as this is my first debate on this website I wanted to make this a smaller debate to get a feel for how the site works. First I will discuss what Critical said in his first argument: (1) No gay people do not have the same rights as a straight person! Gay people can not turn straight and so can never fall in love with the opposite sex. Yes a straight man can not marry another man but he doesn't want to it is not in his interest. However he does have the right to fall in love with the sex he is interested in and marry them were a gay person can't! (2) I understand what you are saying I just wanted to dispel any 'God says it is wrong type arguments' (3) You are basically saying that Gay people do not need to marry to have a loving family however the rights and security that marriage gives is needed when raising children such as being allowed to visit your partner when critically ill in hospital. Also saying you are married in our society and culture is a status symbol to your relationship it means you are committed gay people want to declare there love. Not allowing gay marriage is basically saying there relationship is inferior and sends the message that it is acceptable to discriminate against them.Allowing same-sex couples to marry will give them access to Sorry about the issue with word count as this is my first debate on this website I wanted to make this a smaller debate to get a feel for how the site works. First I will discuss what Critical said in his first argument: (1) No gay people do not have the same rights as a straight person! Gay people can not turn straight and so can never fall in love with the opposite sex. Yes a straight man can not marry another man but he doesn't want to it is not in his interest. However he does have the right to fall in love with the sex he is interested in and marry them were a gay person can't! (2) I understand what you are saying I just wanted to dispel any 'God says it is wrong type arguments' (3) You are basically saying that Gay people do not need to marry to have a loving family however the rights and security that marriage gives is needed when raising children such as being allowed to visit your partner when critically ill in hospital. Also saying you are married in our society and culture is a status symbol to your relationship it means you are committed gay people want to declare there love. Not allowing gay marriage is basically saying there relationship is inferior and sends the message that it is acceptable to discriminate against them.Allowing same-sex couples to marry will give them access to However he does have the right to fall in love with the sex he is interested in and marry them were a gay person can't! (2) I understand what you are saying I just wanted to dispel any 'God says it is wrong type arguments' (3) You are basically saying that Gay people do not need to marry to have a loving family however the rights and security that marriage gives is needed when raising children such as being allowed to visit your partner when critically ill in hospital. Also saying you are married in our society and culture is a status symbol to your relationship it means you are committed gay people want to declare there love. Not allowing gay marriage is basically saying there relationship is inferior and sends the message that it is acceptable to discriminate against them.Allowing same-sex couples to marry will give them access to basic rights such as hospital visitation during an illness, taxation and inheritance rights, (5) The definition of marriage has been constantly changing since it was first written in biblical times. It used to be prohibited for blacks to marry whites. As well as a marriage contract back in the Elizabeth period being contracts of wealth and not love. Also the definition was written under religious guidance so surely in a society that is not ruled on religious law we should not be covering the old dated version of marriage and is it really much of a negative change to say marriage is between 2 people who love each other instead of marriage is between a man and a woman who love each other. It is not such a change! (6/7) I was also just wanting to shoot down some arguments. These points were merely a basic outline of some very basic facts that I wanted to state when starting this debate. Critical you actually have not answered the question about why Gay marriage should not be legal you have just shot down my arguments. I am interested to know why the legalization of Gay marriage would be bad for the society? In the 10 countries that gay marriage is legal in the legalization has not caused much issue if any at all.