Wash. initiative would require married couples to have kids
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12:59 PM PST on Tuesday, February 6, 2007
OLYMPIA, Wash. - An initiative filed by proponents of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriage annulled.
Initiative 957 was filed by the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance. That group was formed last summer after the state Supreme Court upheld Washington's ban on same-sex marriage.
Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance
Under the initiative, marriage would be limited to men and women who are able to have children. Couples would be required to prove they can have children in order to get a marriage license, and if they did not have children within three years, their marriage would be subject to annulment.
All other marriages would be defined as "unrecognized" and people in those marriages would be ineligible to receive any marriage benefits.
“For many years, social conservatives have claimed that marriage exists solely for the purpose of procreation ... The time has come for these conservatives to be dosed with their own medicine," said WA-DOMA organizer Gregory Gadow in a printed statement. “If same-sex couples should be barred from marriage because they can not have children together, it follows that all couples who cannot or will not have children together should equally be barred from marriage."
Supporters must gather more than 224,000 valid signatures by July 6 to put the initiative on the November ballot.
Opponents say the measure is another attack on traditional marriage, but supporters say the move is needed to have a discussion on the high court ruling.
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Not really... Rep. Rangel from NY pulled the same style stunt a while back, talking about his bill to reinstitute the draft. They don't really want their measure to succeed, they are just trying to find the most effective way to bring discussion to the original issue at hand (non-recognition of same-sex marriage). Apparently it's working.
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Not really... Rep. Rangel from NY pulled the same style stunt a while back, talking about his bill to reinstitute the draft. They don't really want their measure to succeed, they are just trying to find the most effective way to bring discussion to the original issue at hand (non-recognition of same-sex marriage). Apparently it's working.
i think it lowers the same sex marriage people to the same pathetic dpeths of the proponents of the "marraige protection act". i am just really fucking sick of all the polarization and the low blows that go along with it.
if we were not in this climate of us against them, this may be a good way to get attention, but these days, something like this only makes the situation worse.
_________________ cirlces they grow and they swallow people whole half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul and so it goes
I mean, this is 1967 again. Next year is gonna be the '68 election all over again. The country is polarized to a degree it hasn't seen in 40 years. Rather than real issues that matter for the improvement of the country, everybody gets bogged down in really nonessential things when it comes down to it.
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