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Gay Marriage Speech

Gay Marriage

1. Introduction
A. Many people today talk about the sanctity of marriage. This belief is part of the reason why many people believe that gay marriage should not be legalized in America. To these people I pose the question, is marriage really all that sacred in this country and would letting anyone who wants to enter into same sex marriage make it not so? In my opinion, people like Britney Spears and anyone else who will jump into a Las Vegas 3-day wedding, are the people who are destroying the sanctity of marriage.
B. Legalizing gay marriage in America is important because it is as much a part of discrimination as slavery was. The only difference in this battle is that religion has gotten involved as a main argument point. Many religious people argue that the marriage is a sacred thing between a man and a woman.
C. I believe that gay marriage should be legalized simply because I believe that marriage is something between two consenting adults who love each other, no matter what their gender may be. Last time I checked, marriage was about love, not about gender/ procreation/ money/ or anything else.
D. In this country, it seems to me that we are just moving from one form of discrimination to another. Now that racism is taking its leave, although there are still many cases of it today, we have started to discriminate against another portion of the population.
E. According to Divorceform.org, 74% of the population gets divorced every year and that number is only from the straight population. Many people also argue that the population can't reproduce if we have men marrying men and women marrying women. Marriage is not something that must be between a man and a woman in order to produce children because many couples choose not to have children. Should people like these have marriage forbidden to them as well?

2. Body
A. Main points for Gay Marriage:
1. Consenting adults who love each other should get married.
2. Can be just...