LOOKING THROUGH A CRYSTAL BALL AT THE POSSIBILITY OF BISEXUAL MARRIAGE…

"LOOK... LOOK DEEPLY INTO THE CRYSTAL BALL…  NOW, WHAT DO YOU SEE....

A man walks through a heavily curtained doorway entering a small candle lit room.  Before him lay a small round table covered in tapestry with two ancient chairs heavily carved with figures.  Before him stands a Seer, a Clairvoyant dressed in Turkish garb wearing a dark purple felted fez with a singular eye embroidered upon it in spun gold.  The Seer tacitly motions him to sit down and his arm stretches out revealing that his robes are covered with ancient symbols, spells, charms, talismans, all now unknown to men save for a few who have passed down the lore of centuries.  At length the Seer walks to the table and sits down looking into space as if in meditation.  Presently he fixes his gaze upon the large crystal sphere levitating o’er the table; a spinning cloud of mist fills its impenetrable depths.  His hands move slowly toward the sphere causing it to glow an intense blue hue and as his long, bony fingers caress the visage of the orb he begins to speak to the gentleman sitting across from him, saying:

“Look into my crystal ball!… What do you see? Look closely, closely, deep into the depths of the mystical orb. Relax, allow yourself to be shown things which to others have not yet been revealed. You will see many, wonderful things some real, but all bound to the fate of possibility!  Look closely and there amidst the mist is a rising tide of social change.  You see two, no three people standing before a justice of the peace, they are dressed as if they are to be married, all three.  The vision has shifted, now you see four people who all are to be married to one another… three men and one woman… they are happy on their special day… but they show the weariness of care, for they have fought many hard years for this day…  O’ the vision fades… the crystal ball is grown silent now… What do you think of this vision?”

Though everyone does not have their own Seer to help them perceive events of the future we can usually foresee trending dimensions of social change long before they actually take center stage.  Bisexuality has been one of those slowly trending phenomenon that has captured the imagination of Americans as they struggle to explore the remaining issues of the sexual revolution.  But far from being merely a side show of media entertainment there is a growing population of bisexual Americans who are pushing the envelope of civil disobedience in order to attain what they perceive to be their right to be married under the laws of this great country.  Today the nation is embroiled in a battle regarding same sex marriage and for now has had little time to parley with the demands of the bisexual community.  But the floodgates of change will hopefully be generous once they are fully and truly opened and so the bisexual community continues the war charge to fight for their civil rights and freedoms under the law.

Bisexual marriage is a topic that few can admit they have actually devoted much thought to.  For most it remains something that exists on the fringe of reality and there are enough other day to day concerns to occupy their minds relegating the prospect of bisexual marriage to a place where it has remained for as long as we all can remember… the realm of fanciful “what-if’s” the improbable the unimaginable… But today the prospect of bisexual marriage has stepped up to become a real possibility and we will be obliged to help shape its realization in the years to come for it will not go away and it will surely gain momentum until it does achieve its ultimate goal.  So we must now ask ourselves many questions and seek answers as well.  When bisexual couples seek to satisfy their rights to get married what form will the marriage ceremony take?  How will the marriage document, which will now include 3 or more persons, be worded?  How exactly do we pave the way for the inevitability of bisexual marriages?

Bisexual relationships, which more and more people are openly sharing, already defy the concept of monogamy.   Marriages designed to memorialize bisexual relationships that consist of three or more people will push our concept of the nuptial duo into a refreshed and greatly expanded reality, we will have finally entered into the last phase of the sexual revolution.  Or perhaps this will usher in yet another window of human sexuality that has not yet been explored and must be vetted out in years to come…

As it stands, same sex marriage is one of the most significant social evolutions of human history to date.  Why, because it has forced into question the meaning of marriage itself, transforming it from an exclusive to a universal tradition intended to memorialize the legal, ethical and emotional dimensions of love and binding them with an interminable contract.  Bisexual marriage has a formidable battle ahead because the law does not allow more than two people to be married.  The rationale for this arbitrary law must be defeated in a legal battle.  The case is very simple, a legal marriage limited to two people discriminates against American citizens who share a loving bisexual relationship but are denied the privileges of marriage that have been crafted to accommodate only two people. 

Bisexual marriage must overcome its likeness to that inglorious adjective, polygamy.  As we move closer to a true separation between church and state such religiously biased terminology will be removed from the law books completely.  The task of purging religious prejudices from the law has already become one of the paramount concerns of freethinking Americans.  We can no longer operate government with a bible in one hand and a law book in the other, churches must be left alone to dictate morality within the confines of their community but the laws of the land must remain free of such subjective, religious interference so that they can safeguard the rights of American citizens from a position of objectivity.

The species we call homo sapiens, (we humans),  has existed upon this planet for over 100,000 years but only within the past 700 years, have they made consistent, significant strides toward a truly egalitarian society.  The European Enlightenment opened a door that precipitated the demise of the concept of divine right.  The American Civil War heralded in The Human Civil Rights Era.  The Sexual Revolution eroded concepts of heterosexual-male dominated culture, introduced the validity of homosexuality and same sex marriage and will ultimately usher in the institutionalized legality of bisexual marriages of three or more persons.  You do not need to rely upon a crystal ball, you have only to open your eyes to see what possibilities lay before you because the twentieth century is paving the way for bisexual marriage…

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Written by David Vollin