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Is sex political? Do you need to vote according to your sexuality?
by , Aug 20, 2014 at 6:45 PM (11526 Views)
The short answer is YES, sex IS political.
Newsflash, there are people in the world and here in America too that would seek to harm us and discriminate against us based solely on our sexual orientation.
It is political because issues of sexuality are currently on the legislative table across the nation that relate to our particular proclivities. If you think that because same-sex marriage only deals with gays and lesbians, that bisexuals are safely tucked into the shadows,you'd be wrong. Certain political parties, and I am not going to name which ones but we all know, judge anyone of alternative sexuality as amoral and are willing to make legislation that is discriminatory against those groups. Being that we are the B in the LGBT community, we are lumped in with the rest of the queer community and are seen a just as much a part of the problem as the rest of those groups. If you think we at some point won't be the direct object of that morality legislative agenda you'd be wrong. So far, 17 states have had constitutional amendments brought to the floor of their statehouses for the purpose of making same-sex marriage illegal forever. 17 times it has been struck down by state supreme courts as unconstitutional. Had this agenda been successful though, it inevitably would have turned it's attention to US. We have to be good neighbors in the LGBTQ community and support the rights of others. If we don't do that, and winning equality rights isn't a priority for us bisexuals, when the angst of the "moral majority" turns our way, we will have few allies to draw upon. Who knows what kind of dark and ominous legislative nightmare might be lurking in the minds of those who would seek to judge us and back up that judgement with laws making that judgement institutionalized. We have to be allies to to the gay and lesbian communities right now because they are I the fight of their lives.
Here recently in Indiana a lesbian couple was married when the Indiana State Supreme Court overturned Indiana's ban on same-sex marriage. Within 24 hours the states attorney filed a stay attempting to halt same-sex marriage until the US Supreme Court rules on the matter. This particular marriage was significant because the lesbian couple involved was on a time crunch, one of the two women involved was terminally ill and may not survive without the insurance benefits granted by their marriage. This question was tenuous and was truly a matter of life and death. A ruling as to whether their marriage would be exempted from the stay has yet to be handed down, all the time the clock is ticking. If they will go to such lengths in a matter of life and death, it's a safe assumption they will go to ANY lengths to further this agenda.
Being bisexual has become just as political as being any other of the alternative sexualities in the LGBTQ spectrum. People's rights are at stake and those stakes are high. The future of our own rights may depend on the alliances we form now. We have to be a community united and not just within our own community, but the larger LGBTQ community. Being a good ally gives us more resources and experience to draw on in the struggle for equality rights. We may yet have our own battles to wage, when that day comes whether we are standing alone will be determined by what we are doing now.
Being bisexual HAS to change your politics, because if you ally yourself with those that would oppress your sexuality, you are denying yourself the right of self determination. Many still do this and vote against their own interest, they do it for all manner of justifications. They deny themselves when they do so because they think other reasons are more important than their own interests. That thinking has to stop, once you accept who you are wholly and really look at what your own political interests are those xenophobic and bigoted people who would discriminate against us are clearly doing so with ill-intent. Their hateful agenda does extend to all people who are different from them,left unchecked it is only a matter of time before we become the object of their hate. As long as being bisexual changes how we are view in society, it will remain a political issue.
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