Reguire married couples to have kids?
This is either the stupidist initiative ever seen, or you can consider it anti-woman and anti-gay. Ever read Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale? Right wing religion rears its ugly head......
Wash. initiative would require married couples to have kids
NWCN.com ^ | 12:59 PM PST on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 | KING5.com Staff and Associated Press
Posted on 02/06/2007 2:25:42 PM PST by RoadTest
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.
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.
Wash. initiative would require married couples to have kids
NWCN.com ^ | 12:59 PM PST on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 | KING5.com Staff and Associated Press
Posted on 02/06/2007 2:25:42 PM PST by RoadTest
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.
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.
posted by progressivegrannie at 4:06 PM
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The folks who put this initiative together call it "political street theater." The initiative is meant to demonstrate the absurdity of a decision last year by Washington's Supreme Court which upheld an anti-gay law by saying the state's interest in marriage was to promote procreation.
The Court ruled that procreation is the state's main interest is child-bearing and -rearing, so the advocates of this ironic initiative are pushing that reasoning to its limit, as satire often does.
Hi, ProgressiveGrannie...
This is actually a pretty good way for the WDMA to fight back a 2006 ruling in Washington state that denies same sex marriage. Making procreation a law is sort of tongue in cheek.
In the words of the Alliance, "It should be good fun to see the social conservatives who have long screamed that marriage exists for the sole purpose of procreation be forced to choke on their own rhetoric".
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