Posted on 02/05/2007 4:20:55 PM PST by Sopater
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.
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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.
So who says gays don't hate straight people in general and women in particular?
Don't they just love calling straights "breeders"?
Gays hurl "breeder" as an insult. I don't think that it is.
Oh yes - I'm soooooo proud of my state.
By the way, if I wanted to, I could get an iniative started in the People's Republic of Washington to mandate that every new-born have the middle name of "Freeper".
Sayyyyy!
Wonder how the gay guys would like to have an initiative on the ballot that reqyures each one of them to use his penis for breeding purposes regulary or suffer amputation of the otherwise "useless" member.
My wife and I just adopted a new kitten. Does that count?
Gregory 'Goesdown' is just an uppity flamer looking to cause troubles for heteros any way he can.
Just wait. This will fail. This time.
But when President Hillary gets in and appoints HER judges, watch out.
I was trying to think of something to say ... but I think you've replied as succinctly as can be to this .... this ..... words fail me.
I'm down here in Louisiana, so I have to ask. Is there something in the mist that comes in off of the Pacific that infects people with liberalism and craziness? (Apparently you're okay though.)
Part of it may be the southerly winds that brings the Californians up here!
However, in my State's defense - OUR court did uphold OUR law that bans gay marriage.
Sounds like something Hitler would have come up with....
For a little laugh, check out the first few sentences of this article.
Bring it on.
What the heck
We should just go back to making sodomy illegal.
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