IE: seeing as homosexuality is linked very heavily with other destructive behaviour;
What are you talking about?
Straight men are more likely to do drugs, drink too much and get into fights in bars than gay men.
What other destrictive behaviour are your talking about?
"if someone wants to smoke pot, crack or inject heroin - why shouldn't they be allowed to it's their body" - to which there are two responses - yes it's "their body" but as anorexia, it's a destructive thing; or; yes it's "their body" but drug use: spreads disease, violence, crime and floods gaols: over 90% of inmates in prisons are drug users; imagine if 90% of the prison population was to disappear?
Yes, it is their body, and their choice, i would never deny people the right to make a choice in these matters, but i DO NOT like dealers, especially those who sell to children.
Really tho, when it comes down to is, these things are no different than the State sponsored drugs. Cigarettes, alcohol and Caffine, not to mention the pescription drugs. There are more deaths per year from alcohol and Cigatettes alone than there is from the others combined.
And depression, drug abuse, suicide, homicide, a 2,000% increase in HIV/AIDS infections alone - and vastly increased other diseases.
lmao, why do you think this?
Gays are depressed? They are amongs the happiest people i know, and the least likely to suicide or murder someone. Any increase in homocides would be from homofobic gay bashing barbarians..
They are the least likely to use drugs of the people i know.
2000% increase in HIV?? So if gay marraige was legal, you think there would suddenly be a 2000+% increase in people coming out of the closet? How unbelieveably paranoid!
Read what you just said. The Ancient Greeks, for instance, did not have any de jure "legal" status of Marriage - it was de facto "ceremonial" only - there was no signing papers. Correct me if I'm wrong - there is nothing preventing de facto relationships in the USA that are homosexual in nature, true? Well you can't have it both ways, which is it?
Why cany you have it both ways? Straight people can.
They dont have to get married, and can have a de facto if they wish, but the point is, THEY HAVE A CHOICE.
I do have one final point to make, one that I think will make some of you think twice. The rector at my Church not long after he became ordained was confronted by one of his friends who confided in him his sexuality. He chose specifically to go to him first - knowing in advance that he believed homosexuality is a sin. I think that's extraordinary - when I think of the sins I've committed and that I could have - and should have - confided in my rector probably firstly instead of not-at-all - and yet this guy did, for something that must have been truly consuming him.
You just lessened the impact of your whole argument by mentioning the church, and your affiliation with them, i have no choice but to assume you views are religion based.
It seems most of the people who are against it are so because of their religion, and not because of any logical reasoning.
Come on guys, if you want to argue against it, at least come up with some good reasoning.
dont say thing like there would be a "2,000% increase in HIV/AIDS infections alone - and vastly increased other diseases." without telling us why this would happen, without giving some clue as to how you come up with such peposterous arguments.