LGBT News Conservative columnist: What Does Obama's 'Marriage Equality' Mean for Bisexuals?

Urge to bite him for his stupidity rising...

I'll just rip up his stupid yard instead.

 

lol . . . from that article it got me reading other articles on that site ... now I need to go take a shower :bang:

 

I'm not sure if this makes me more angry or depressed. Probably both.
What does marriage equality mean for bisexuals? That we would be able to marry someone of the opposite gender if we wanted to, OR that we could marry someone of the same gender if we wanted to.

Bisexual does not mean you have this uncontrollable need to be involved with one man and one woman at all times. It's not some horrible problem that you need to learn to control. Who I like may be male, and who I like may be female. That's all. I wish people could understand that.

 

Yeah that guy is definetley confusing bisexuality with polyamorous dating or something else separate from bisexuality.

 

What is this? I don't even...

 

I hope it means that someday I'll have the option of marrying a woman.

I'm down for marriages consisting of more than one partner, but I'm monogamous.

 

Oh look, the conflation of bisexuality with polyamory. How novel...

 

I'm all for polygamy/polyamory, personally. If everyone is of age and happy and it doesn't hurt anyone, why not? I've heard of many bisexuals being committed to two people at once and everyone concedes. No harm done.

 

I agree, actually. I mean, polyamory is fine for people who are programmed that way (and they do exist). For most of us, it's hard to maintain though.

 

What....a....tool.

 

that is truly fucking retarded

 

I support polygamy anyway and find this slippery slope argument relatively weak and self-defeating.

 

How dumb can this nation get? How much longer will people be trying to stop anyone for haveing the rights that they deserve. I would never have a polygamish relationship but if everyone in one is truly in love then what is to say they are wrong? If they stop anyone from marrying someone they love then they are in the wrong not the people marrying.

 

I'm...confused. By this article and the comments commending it. Why would I want a relationship with a girl AND a guy? At the same time? I can barely manage one.

 

...I'm just going to stop reading the comments now because they're going to make me angry. Why is it that hard to understand what the word bisexual means? A straight man can be attracted to more than one woman but maintain a monogamous relationship. Why is it so hard to believe that a bisexual person could be in a relationship with one person?

 

Aside from this idiots flawed logic, there is irony here as well.

So many people are opposed to gay marriage on "religious" grounds. Now, I could go into a debate here about the secular nature of government, how it actually has no impact on religious institutions at all thanks to the First Amendment, and how they are simply using religion as a shield to hide their bigotry... but I won't.

Instead, I'll point out the irony. Here are people who, most will claim, are opposed to gay marriage on religious grounds. They are also opposed to, presumably, polygamy. Yet, if they are injecting religion into their arguments, what of those whose religious belief allows - or perhaps even requires - polygamous marriages? This is the slippery slope they've built their argument against us on. Of course, they could simply mean (and let's be honest: it's exactly what they mean), that their "religious" beliefs should trump all others, but that just opens up a whole different can of worms for them...

Personally, I don't believe the government has the right to define what a marriage looks like under any circumstances. The government may define what privileges and benefits are created under the contract, so long as it is applied equally to everyone, but in my view the government may not define who enters into that contract so long as they are able to consent to the contract.

In the end, in the eyes of a secular government, that is all a marriage is: a contractual agreement. If someone wants something religious out of it, then they need to head on over to their church, mosque, synagogue, coven, druids grove, their new age hippie drum circle - or wherever it is their religions people go - and get their religion there.

 

Whoever they love and want to, duh.

 

The author of that column deserves to be slapped numerous times for his idiocy. :bang: :bang: :bang: I don't think even many conservative commentators could see how stupid that argument is.

Bisexuality =/= multiple partners.