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.
All other marriages would be defined as "unrecognized" and people in those marriages would be ineligible to receive any marriage benefits.
I guess explaining that marriage is designed to protect the interests of children has now been translated into mandatory child-bearing. Where are the pro-choicers here?
I am utterly opposed to this. Advancing a good cause by making life difficult for people who are just going about their lives is not moral.
ReplyDeleteI think it's exactly the wrong approach. In the first place, the people who are most likely to oppose same sex marriage probably do generally have children within the first three years of marriage because traditional marriage types tend to think having children is very important. But secondly, this amendment would probably hurt most the sorts of people who are more inclined to agree with same sex marriage. It really does seem like shooting oneself in the foot.
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