Minnesota Catholic Conference proposes that bisexuals want to marry one of each gender
Wednesday, October 05, 2011 at 6:00 am
The director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference claimed Friday that a failure to pass the constitutional same-sex marriage ban in 2012 would lead to a dangerous precedent where bisexuals would be free to marry one person of each gender; bisexuals say he’s got it wrong.
In an interview with Politics in Minnesota, Jason Adkins, the executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the Catholic church, spoke about his organization’s role in the Minnesota for Marriage coalition, which also includes the Minnesota Family Council and the National Organization for Marriage.
“It’s about preserving an important institution,” Adkins told PIM. “When you’re talking about marriage and changing the definition of marriage, you’re not creating a separate institution called same-sex marriage. You’re in fact redefining marriage for everyone.”
Adkins added that legalizing marriage for same-sex couples would create a slippery slope. “There’s little reason why you’d limit it to two people at all. What if a bisexual wants a partner of each kind, a man and a woman? Are you leaving that group out?”
Lauren Beach, chair of the Bisexual Organizing Project, told the Minnesota Independent that Adkins gets it wrong on several counts.
“This amendment is not about who can or should be able to get married—it is about a mean-spirited attempt to write discrimination into the state constitution to say who can’t,” said Beach. “The Bisexual Organizing Project stands united with the rest of the coalition members of Minnesotans United for All Families in our opposition to the marriage amendment. A quick look at the group’s website will show we are not ‘left out’ of this coalition.”
Beach also said that Adkins’ statement revealed a profound misunderstanding of bisexuals.
“To suggest that all bisexuals need to marry more than one person at a time is a common misconception about bisexuality that demonstrates a deeper need for education about bisexual identities in our society,” she said. “Being bisexual is not synonymous with being polyamorous. Some bisexuals, just like some gay, lesbian, transgender, and straight people, are polyamorous. Many bisexuals, including myself, however, are monogamous, and would simply like to live in a society where their partner’s gender would not arbitrarily limit their ability to access the many state benefits directly tied to marriage.”
16 Comments
Comment posted October 5, 2011 @ 7:09 am
Jason Adkins needs to confess his sin of lying. About 7 million Hail Marys and Our Fathers might cover it.
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Comment posted October 5, 2011 @ 12:31 pm
Wow.
I wish I could get paid to say incredibily stupid stuff pulled directly from my nether regions like this clown or Jason Lewis and Kathyrn Kersten.
Hey, Jeff
Heard you on “Nancy Nelson” a week or so ago, you did good!
Comment posted October 5, 2011 @ 1:53 pm
Unless its about how to molest children or how to protect child molesters I don’t think the Catholic Church has much to teach us. It’s an organization that is evil and soulless.
Comment posted October 5, 2011 @ 3:20 pm
The good news is that Minnesota Catholic Conference has shown that the sin of bearing false witness is now A-OK with God.
Comment posted October 5, 2011 @ 3:23 pm
I see that Jason Adkins is committing one of the biggest sins in the bible…lying! Of course people like him don’t let facts get in their way.
Comment posted October 5, 2011 @ 4:46 pm
I am an ex-Catholic. Their narrow-mindedness and double-standards are a few reasons I left after I graduated from parochial school. I wanted no part of the hipocracy. I am not sheepleminded enough to buy their bs I guess? It is sad that people can’t think for themselves and need false gods like the Catholic Church.
Comment posted October 5, 2011 @ 7:38 pm
How many bisexual people does Jason Adkins know personally and would call them friends? Through meaningful relationship, like friendships, he’d know that (1) there’s a difference between being bisexual and being non-monogamous; and (2) there’s a difference between being bisexual and being promiscuous.
Because he lacks accurate information, he may as well say that the current institution of marriage allows for a slippery slope too: it allows for heterosexuals–often straight men in power–to commit adultery or to solicit sex from someone of their own gender and later lie about it.
Those of us who know from direct experience what is true need to show up at places where these false statements are likely to be made–made to stigmatize a particular group of people–and we need to be willing to be bold as well as humble (if not also angry):
Stand up and say “No. That is not true. No. You placing stigma on a group that you have no direct connection with. No. That is enough: Minnesota is about caring for one another and uplifting one another because of our human dignity for each other.”
Comment posted October 5, 2011 @ 10:01 pm
Ignorance abounds in the religious circles. At least in Minnesota, the Catholic Church can boast their still in the “Golden Era”, called “The Dark Ages” in world history books. Honestly, how do these people get through seminary? Do all they learn is how to pick the best looking altar boys? Bisexuals are polygamous like the Catholic clergy is virtuous.
Comment posted October 5, 2011 @ 10:35 pm
The church can claim whatever it wants. At one time the church proclaimed that the Earth was the center of the universe, and our Sun revolved around it. This statement of “fact” is no less enlightened.
Why not focus on cleaning up the falsehoods of celibacy first? Priests having sex with boys is horrible, and we know that that has happened plenty of times. How about admitting that priests nearly as often are involved in either straight or gay relationships while still allowed to pretend that they are some sort of super-character who lives a non-sexual life? How about coming clear with the reality that priests have no business counseling others in marriage or other relationship situations? How about telling THE TRUTH?
This is yet another example of why I left the roman catholic church. I’m a straight male, have no interest in a bi-, gay, or poly- anything relationship, and none of the bisexual folks I know have any interest in multiple marriages. How about coming to terms with a reality of human sexuality that you have tried to bury for 2 millenia now?
Oh, and there’s that thing about “love one another”… I don’t see much of that coming out of Rome. Coming out…as if that could happen…
Comment posted October 6, 2011 @ 7:29 am
Really now? So Bi-sexuals want to marry one of each gender?…….unlike those MORAL heterosexuals, that marry, divorce,marry,divorce,marry,divorce,marry,divorce…etc etc rinse,repeat…..its No wonder I NO LONGER have anything to do with any religion…..LIARS,Charletons is all they are.
Comment posted October 6, 2011 @ 10:36 pm
I’m attracted to white women, black women and asian women. That obviously means that I want to marry one of each and therefor destroy the institution of marriage with trigamy!
Comment posted October 9, 2011 @ 12:49 pm
I think Lauren Beach has said almost everything to shine a light on Jason Adkins’ obfuscation and fear-mongering about bisexuals and fluid sexuality. I’ll just throw in my two cents: bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender and straight people who opt for polyamorous arrangements in their lifestyles deserve protection from discrimination–which is bound to be a problem for them in an environment where LGBTQ are so consistently attacked.
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Comment posted October 11, 2011 @ 12:40 am
I think it’s the incense. The logic of Catholic bishops is ridiculous. Please test the incense for it’s impact on your brains. Seriously. Same sex couples love each other and want to get married. It’s that simple and logical. That does not have any impact on my or anyone else’s opposite sex marriage.
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