I appreciate the effort, but none of those arguments are too convincing.
1. Allowing gays to marry isn't going to change the number of homosexuals, it might increase the number who come out of the closet. Many of them do reproduce. Gay dads aren't that rare. Despite this, let's assume that no homosexual has ever had a child. Well, they've been around as long as heterosexuals, how can it be explained that the human population is still increasing at an unsustainable rate? It can't. Even if everyone became gay, we'd still have the choice to have children or not.
2. I doubt that allowing gays to marry would result in a mad rush by heteros to enter into gay marriages. I haven't seen any evidence that the increasing acceptance of homosexuality in our society has resulted in an increase in the number of gay people. This argument assumes that being gay is a choice, which is a hard sell. Could you decide to be gay? Even if you could, i think if you base your argument on the assertion that having a choice is a bad thing for consenting adults you'd have a hard time being
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Genetic mutations are referred to as something negative in relation to the human body.
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If it weren't for mutations we'd be single cell organisms. Pure science doesn't make judgments on things like that. Mutations do what mutations do, whether they're good or bad is in the eye of the beholder. Even if it was a "bad" mutation, it is a rather benign one, don't you think? It doesn't cause blindness, or shorten the lifespan. I think it would be a pretty low priority if humanity ever reaches the point where we have the ability and ethics to eliminate genetic mutations.
4. I'm not sure i understand anything about this point, other than that it is a stretch.
5. Please clarify