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Scripter, Please post the link to the entire database for Panther.

Panther, Scripter's database has a huge amount of data which I don't quite have the time to linik to at the moment. Please read the appropriate categories to support the following.

The purpose of marriage is to provide for the future prosperity of society. Just as all laws are designed to protect society.

Society's future is totally dependant on raising a healthy next generation of children. Any society that does not provide for a healthy next generation ceases to exist (check out the shakers)

The healthiest environment for producing and raising children is a stable home where one man is married to and loves one woman.

Marriage is the societal encouragement of this environment. Whatever you subsidize you get more of. We subsidize marriage in our laws (both civil and religious) in order to get more of this environement so that we will have a healthy next generation.

Now for the marriage contract to be valid both partners must be mentally stable. You wouldn't expect a mentally diseased person to be able to enter into any other contract so why would we let the mentally ill enter into marriage?

Scripters database has a huge section on the health risks associated with homosexual behavior. There is also a section on the risks to society of this behavior.

For all of recorded history (and before) the union of man to woman in marriage has been the accepted 'normal' pattern. Anything else was (and is) seen as an aberation or as not quite right.

Homosexual behavior is a symptom of a mental disease known as Same-sex Attraction Disorder (SAD). It is caused by trauma (molestation, insuffiecient relationship with one's father, or relentless teasing by ones peers) and it is totally curable. Again there are links in the database documenting this. Note that no sane person would practice this behvaior knowing the damage that it causes. This is why the suicidal are locked up for observation and treatment, because no sane person would suicide. A homosexual lifestyle is just slow suicide

There is no genetic component to this behavior. Links to support this also.

So in order to have 'gay' marriage we would have to allow two mentally diseased people to enter into a binding contract. By legal definition neither of them are capable of entering into a contract.

Your opponent will likely counter that SAD was delisted from the DSM quite a few years back (the DSM is the diagnostic manual for psychiatric disorders. Unfortunately I don't remember what the acronym stands for). The answer to this is that this was a political decision more than a medical decision and that the main player pushing for the delisting at that time now admits he was wrong. (link in the DB for this too IIRC)

In short 'gay' marriage ends up promoting a behavior that is contrary to the future health of society.