Procreate or else!!!

By: Dianne
Published On: 2/5/2007 10:30:23 AM

Vivian Paige has an interesting post on a proposed initiative by the Washington [state] Defense of Marriage Alliance to make procreation a requirement for legal marriage.  Read it here...http://www.wa-doma.o... and here http://www.wa-doma.o...

....talk about panty politics!!!


Comments



I am in big trouble - (totallynext - 2/5/2007 8:54:06 PM)
I better go so a divorce attorney - any suggestions


Is this what you might call... (Kindler - 2/5/2007 9:31:15 PM)
...a f**ked up policy?


Talk about cruel! (PM - 2/6/2007 1:48:25 PM)
My wife and I could not have children because of a medical condition.  We tried for years to have a child.  Now we have two lovely adopted children.  This law would mean we could not be married. !!!  Women past menopause could not get married?

Wow, these people are even sicker than Marshall and Cuccinelli.



Cruel, cruel initiative (Hugo Estrada - 2/6/2007 2:56:05 PM)
This is very unfair. Look at this part of the text:


(1) Marriages in the following cases are prohibited:

  * (a) When either party thereto has a wife or husband living at the time of such marriage;
  * (b) When the husband and wife are nearer of kin to each other than second cousins, whether of the whole or half blood computing by the rules of the civil law; or
  * (c) When the parties are persons other than a male and a female;
  * (d) When the parties are unable to have children together for any reason; or
  * (e) When the parties were previously married in this state but had their marriage annulled because of failure to have filed a certificate of marital procreation as required by section 5 of this act.

I know that this is directed to prevent any kind of gay marriage, but throwing in that "for any reason" puts marriages of heterosexual people in peril.

So people with known infertile couples' marriages would be annulled? How about marriages of people who got vasectomies? No senior citizens can marry?

Isn't it fun to see how social conservatives actually put marriage in peril in their obsession to defend it?



This is Apparently a Ploy (mmc0412 - 2/7/2007 12:17:03 PM)
By those who support gay marriage.  While I definitely see the point of how stupid this law would be, it's very dangerous to put this up to a vote because there are sickos who would agree with this!


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.

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.

"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."