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|PRO Gay Marriage |CON Gay Marriage  |

|It is no one else's business if two men or two women want to get married. Two people|The institution of marriage has traditionally been defined as between a man and a |

|of the same sex who love each other should be allowed to publicly celebrate their |woman. In the Oct. 15, 1971 decision Baker v. Nelson (186 KB) [pic], the Supreme |

|commitment (357 KB) [pic] and receive the same benefits of marriage as opposite sex |Court of Minnesota found that "The institution of marriage as a union of man and |

|couples. [40] |woman, uniquely involving the procreation and rearing of children within a family, |

|There is no such thing as traditional marriage. Given the prevalence of modern and |is as old as the book of Genesis.” [49] |

|ancient examples of family arrangements based on polygamy, communal child-rearing, |Marriage is already threatened with high divorce rates (between 40% and 50%) (851 |

|the use of concubines and mistresses and the commonality of prostitution, |KB) [pic] and with 40.6% of babies being born to unmarried mothers (312 KB) [pic] in|

|heterosexual monogamy can be considered "unnatural” in evolutionary terms. [3] |2008. Allowing same-sex couples to marry would further weaken the |

|Gay marriage is protected by the Constitution's commitments to liberty and equality.|institution. [50] [51] |

|The US Supreme Court declared in 1974’s Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur that|Gay marriage could potentially lead down a "slippery slope” ending with giving |

|the "freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life is one of the|people in...