"fervently debated" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a topic or issue that has been discussed or argued with great passion or intensity. Example: The topic of gun control has been fervently debated for decades, with both sides holding strong and opposing views.
Suggestions such as "eira" and "eiro" were fervently debated until the government settled for the latter.
For at least half a century, townspeople have fervently debated how to solve the traffic problem.
Confronted with a mess of astounding proportions, Congress fervently debated the election for weeks.
Dreams may or may not perform a cognitive or emotional function — that question is still fervently debated among academics.
Typical was a recent sketch at U.C.B. by the Dillinger, an improvisational group, in which two presidential candidates fervently debated which candidate was a stronger supporter of indigenous rights of field mice.
In the rapidly reviving Venice of today, and in a city where parking is more fervently debated than air quality, it seems almost too predictable that the City of Los Angeles wants to tear down the fence, pave the space and, yes, put up a parking lot.
Entry Turks are fervently debating whether their nation should make the profound political changes, improve its human rights record, repeal laws that limit free expression and give more cultural rights to Kurds, steps that are necessary for membership in the European Union.
It has been thought about in great detail and is still debated fervently by committees and large professional groups.
They also fervently desire to debate politics, engage in genuine democracy and be taken seriously.
Yes, religion does need to be examined and debated regularly and fervently.
And in characteristic fashion, even as Mexicans lived a thrilling period of democratic innovation, they often debated their own history as fervently as their strategies for the future.
