Same sex marriages
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A man in Idaho was slowly dying in his hospital room after an automobile accident, and was robbed of the ability to say his final goodbyes to the love of his life, his monogamous life partner. This is because visitation rights in hospitals are only given to immediate family, which does not include life partners of the same sex. This right is one of over a thousand that homosexuals are denied. Resolved: Gay marriage should be legalized in the US Definition of Marriage: A socially sanctioned, voluntary, committed, monogamous, legally contracted union, of two adult people, which the federal and state governments recognize by conferring certain rights, privileges and responsibilities, such as finances, taxes, inheritance, child-raising, adoption, visitation, and medical decision making. Plan: We, the affirmative team, believe that same-sex marriages should be legalizes in the U.S. on a federal level. Same-sex couples that choose to marry should receive all the...

