Lincoln-Douglas Debate format: Planning Sheet

Affirmative: Constructive speech

Affirmative speaker 1: According to LifeLong Adoptions, almost 40% of all
agencies and 83% of public agencies reported making at least one adoption placement with
a lesbian or gay man (LGBT Adoption Facts). This statistic not only shows the mass
amounts of same sex adoption occurring in todays day, but it also exemplifies and
foreshadows the positive effects to be endured and portrayed by the adopted children.
(prepare speech)
Negative: Questions for Affirmative side
Negative speaker 1: They are childrens that grow more happy because there are not
many points of view they have one way of knowing the world, so why you say they would
have mentally constrains? (prepare questions)
Affirmative speaker 1: Thats not only because of their parents normal childrens
who have normal parents also receive bullying so this doesnt determine that same sex
adoptions is bad for childrens. (improvise well)
Negative. Constructive speech
Negative speaker 1: respuesta (prepare speech)
Negative: Refutation
Negative speaker 2: All childrens have questions about the world, also childrens
with same sex parents have another perspectibe about the world but this doesnt mean they
have mantally constrains they just see the world different.(prepare refutation and
improvise well)
Affirmative: Questions for Negative side
Affirmative speaker 2: (prepare questions)
Negative speaker 2: A study says that childrens of parents of the same sex present
both mentally and physically, academic and personal constraints, so what positive effects
would have?
(improvise well)
Affirmative: Rebuttal and/or refutation
Affirmative speaker 3: An example to that answer will be: imagine when the
children is in the school and their friends saw that she or he parents are both moms and
dads she will receive bullying form their classmates so they will have mentally restrictions.
(prepare rebuttal and

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Negative: Rebuttal/ Alexa
Negative speaker 1 (or 3): But the point is that tis childrens have higher risk of
receiving bullying than the normal ones, also they have higher risks of mentally constrains
because they have more questions of the world than normal ones. (prepare rebuttal and
improvise well)
Negative: Summary/Lizbeth
Negative speaker 2 (or 3): Gay men have an increased chance in contracting
sexually transmitted diseases, due to their promiscuity and choice of lifestyle, developing
anal cancer, and have a decreased life expectancy than straight men do (Glenn); According
to the an article selected by the Zenit International News Agency, Domestic violence is
more common among same-sex couples. Men with same-sex attractions are more likely to
become infected with a STD, including HIV, hepatitis or HPV, which can lead to cancer.
(prepare summary)
Affirmative: Rebuttal/Alexa
Affirmative speaker 2: In addition to health related risks, higher grade retentions
and personal constraints can be associated with children of same sex couples versus the
typical children of heterosexual married couples. This can be a product of many factors,
one being that, the legal privileges of marriage are numerous and have direct
consequences for the well-being of children prepare rebuttal and
improvise well)
Affirmative: Summary: Jenny
Affirmative speaker 3: The sense of reliability that homosexual parents give to
their adopted children is far slighter than one would hope for such child in question. There
are far too many possible factors that can play a negative role in a childs life, whether he or
she result in being affected by them or not. The risk in mental health, academic and
personal constraints, and negative effect in developmental social skills increase; and
therefore, an overall decrease in the successful upbringing of a child has come as a result of
same sex adoption. Without a doubt, same sex adoption inevitably illustrates the absence in
parental reliability towards the developmental stages a child must experience and surpass
with confidence. In essence, as Dr. Mark Regnerus concluded, the stable, two-parent
biological married model [is] the far more common and accomplished workhorse of the
American household, and stillaccording to the data, at leastthe safest place for a kid
(prepare summary)