Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Washington Initiative Requires Married Couples to Have Kids

From the "we want to keep government out of the bedroom" crowd, we have this.

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?