What Does Obama's ‘Marriage Equality' Mean for Bisexuals?

President Barack Obama, occupant of the bully pulpit, set aside the past month to celebrate a most peculiar thing.

"Now, each June since I took office," Obama said in a June 15 speech at the White House, "we have gathered to pay tribute to the generations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans who devoted their lives to our most basic of ideals — equality not just for some, but for all."

Among the places our president said he wanted "equality not just for some, but for all" — that is, presumably, including "bisexuals" — is in the institution of marriage.

"We've supported efforts in Congress to end the so-called Defense of Marriage Act," Obama said. "And as we wait for that law to be cast aside, we've stopped defending its constitutionality in the courts."

"And Americans may be still evolving when it comes to marriage equality," Obama said, "but as I've indicated personally, Michelle and I have made up our minds on this issue."

According to Merriam-Webster, homosexual means "characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex." Bisexual means "characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward both sexes."

Obama, we now know, believes homosexual men have a "right" to marry other men, and homosexual women have a "right" to marry other women. So, who does he believe bisexuals have a "right" to marry?

In Obama's world, does a bisexual man have a "right" to enter into a bigamous union with one other man and one woman? Or can the state force him to limit his marriage to the union of just two people?

And if that is the case, how would Obama, within his philosophy of government, justify prohibiting a bisexual from forming a tripartite marriage?

In 2003, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Lawrence v. Texas. The lawyer for the homosexual plaintiffs in this case argued that they had a "right to engage in consensual sexual intimacy in the privacy of their home" — including homosexual activity. The laws against this activity, the plaintiffs and their allies argued, were wrong because they were based on morality.

Assessing this argument that homosexual behavior was a "right," Justice Antonin Scalia asked, "Why is this different from bigamy?"

The plaintiff's lawyer responded, essentially, that homosexuals were not asking for the right to marry, they were merely asking for the right to sodomy.

"Now, bigamy involves protection of an institution that the State creates for its own purposes, and there are all sorts of potential justifications about the need to protect the institution of marriage that are different in kind from the justifications that could be offered here involving merely a criminal statute that says we're going to regulate these people's behaviors," the lawyer told Scalia.

The majority overturned its own 1986 precedent, Bowers v. Hardwick, and ruled for the homosexuals. In Bowers, Justice Byron White, a John F. Kennedy appointee, had flatly rejected the argument that a state could not base its laws on morality.

"The law, however, is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the Due Process Clause, the courts will be very busy indeed," said White.

Chief Justice Warren Burger concurred. "To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching," he said.

Dissenting from the court's 2003 opinion in Lawrence, Scalia foretold what would follow from the court's decision in that case to overturn Bowers and attack the principle that the law is based on morality.

"State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity are likewise sustainable only in light of Bowers' validation of laws based on moral choices," said Scalia. "Every single one of these laws is called into question by today's decision; the Court makes no effort to cabin the scope of its decision to exclude them from its holding."

Obama's decision to attack rather than defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court validates Scalia's warning. The Obama administration is arguing that for an individual, an institution or a state to discriminate against same-sex "marriages" is akin to discriminating against people because of their race.

By turning our law upside down, Obama would turn our society inside out. Racial discrimination is wrong for the same reason homosexual behavior — or, for that matter, bisexual behavior — is wrong. Racial discrimination violates the natural God-given law that is the only source of any legitimate law of the state.

When the Founders created this country, they rightfully pointed for justification to the "Laws of Nature and Nature's God." They said that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

No rational person could argue that there is a God-given right to same-sex marriage or bisexual behavior. To justify such things, as Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote only a quarter-century ago, one must "cast aside millennia of moral teaching."

As he seeks to remove God as the ultimate source of our law, with whom will Obama replace Him?

And if that is the case, how would Obama, within his philosophy of government, justify prohibiting a bisexual from forming a tripartite marriage?

OK, this could get real weird. A bisexual should only get to marry other bisexuals. If he marries a homosexual, it should be monogamous. But if he marries a bisexual man, that man needs a bisexual wife. And if he marries a bisexual woman, she needs a bisexual woman to complete her triangle. Now, we are up to 5 people. But what about the woman and man that the 1st husband and wife have? Don't they need bisexuals of the other sex, too. And it just grows and grows and grows.

Liberalism/social marxism is just another word for insanity. It's just a method to destroy society, and after the collapse, when people are living hand to mouth and they need to worry about things like how to survive, a natural order is eventually restored. Unfortunately, the new order is likely to be a tyrannical one. Free societies of just men don't come around very often, and require some very specific circumstances to institute--strong family values, cultural cohesion, religious fidelity. We don't have that, so when the collapse comes, it will lead to an ugly, brutal dictatorship. This homosexual agenda is just one small part of the effort to bring about the collapse.

More foolishness. The bisexual would select a single spouse without regard to gender.

Homosexuals conceitedly believe there is no distinction, that a bisexual is just someone unwilling to accept their own homosexuality but those who identify as bisexuals argue they are attracted to individuals without regard to gender.

The Prop 8 federal court ruling that invalidated CA's traditional marriage constitutional amendment did not address number at all but described gender restriction in marriage as arbitrary.

For me, number seems at least as arbitrary as gender so it'll be interesting to see how "marriage" avoids being opened to polyamory/polygamy.

“More foolishness. The bisexual would select a single spouse without regard to gender.
Homosexuals conceitedly believe there is no distinction, that a bisexual is just someone unwilling to accept their own homosexuality but those who identify as bisexuals argue they are attracted to individuals without regard to gender.”

I understand what you are saying here, but this assumes that the bisexual simply picks a beloved irrespective of gender. That is a nice theory, but those of us who have known bisexual people know that they like to, and need to, sleep with both men and women. Many psychological profiles have been written about the man who loves his wife but likes to indulge in occasional sex with men, etc. I am not buying into “we pick the person, not the gender.” mantra of the bisexual movement. This, from experience.

“If homos can get married, I don’t see how they can justify making polygamy illegal.”

Or incest, consenting adult are consenting adults. Dogs and horses, pigs, and goats, too.

Homosexuality is a behavioral problem. It is a choice, not a natural mandate.

In the case of marriage, it doesn’t even matter if gays were “born that way”. Marriage is civilization’s method, under natural and eternal law, of bringing the 2 genders together for chaste sexuality for the purpose of building families and protecting children until they are adults. Even if it is NOT a choice, in the realm of marriage , it’s simply excess and burden to add homosexuals into the equation. They know this. And it makes them even more determined to push their way in.

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