I'm leading the "anti" side in a debate next Monday over wheter or not homosexuals should be allowed to adopt children. I have 5 men on my side- two of them intelligent and three, average to low. The opposing debate team is led by a feminist who's likely to have a lot of rhetoric to use, but her teammates are two mostly apolitical beta males and a really stupid whore. Every person will only be able to call for the right to reply once, and will only be able to reply to his reply once aswell, so both sides will end up having to use their not-very-bright members.
So I've gathered some information- starting with the pics shown here, plus new sources I've found- and readied three arguments and their supporting evidence, aswell as replies to possible enemy arguments. All of this has been written into a Microsoft Office document, which I'll print and distribute to my team members.
Our central thesis is that the intact biological family is the best possible setting for a child to be raised, and our "assault" is focused on three points:
And I expect the following enemy arguments:
There are 3 responses to this: the idea of history as a march of progress towards utopia was made popular by the Whigs and Marxists in the 19th century and may not be the best interpretation of history, "progress" as a word has had varied meanings throughout history (the USSR considered itself the height of human progress as it comitted genocide) and damaging a generation in the name of a relative word isn't worth it, and hampering the growth of many children certainly isn't "progress".
Children's well-being is more important than a microscopic segment of the population's variety of life choices, and nobody has a "right to adopting children"; in fact, following the modern rhetoric of "all family structures are equal", it's not inhumane to live without children.
A generation's well-being is more important than the realization of an ideological objective based on an abstract ideal which has been used as a justification for violence and social dissolution through the world.
Our position is based on logic, statistics and the desire to protect children, and does not need any strong negative emotions to exist and be understood.
This one is trickier. It's possible to point out that these studies are biased (though I'd be relutanct to say this, as Regnerus himself wasn't completely neutral), show that Regnerus claimed that these studies have flaws in their method and read Steven Nock's statement on weak methods in studies with pro-homosexual results.
So tell me, Holla Forums: how can I make these arguments more sound? Which additional statistics I can cite? Are there any more likely enemy arguments I should prepare for? Is there anything else I can keep in mind?