Proposal Would Require Straights To Have Kids Or Marriages Would Be Voided?

Question

Olympia, Washington) Proponents of same-sex marriage have introduced a ballot measure that would require heterosexual couples to have a child within three years or have their marriages annulled.

The Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance acknowledged on its Web site that the initiative was "absurd" but hoped the idea prompts "discussion about the many misguided assumptions" underlying a state Supreme Court ruling that upheld a ban on same-sex marriage.

The measure would require couples to prove they can have children to get a marriage license. Couples who do not have children within three years could have their marriages annulled.

All other marriages would be defined as "unrecognized," making those couples ineligible for marriage benefits.

The paperwork for the measure was submitted last month. Supporters must gather at least 224,800 signatures by July 6 to put it on the November ballot.

The group said the proposal was aimed at "social conservatives who have long screamed that marriage exists for the sole purpose of procreation."

Cheryl Haskins, executive director of Allies for Marriage and Children, said opponents of same-sex marriage want only to preserve marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

"Some of those unions produce children and some of them don't," she said

Answer 1

well now, isnt this a stupid one.

Answer 2

Interesting maneuver. It will be interesting to see how the right responds to this.

If you look at it, the argument has some merit based on what those apposed to same sex marriage are fond of saying.

My favorite claim by those apposed is that they feel they need to protect the "sanctity of marriage" between a man and a woman.

Especially when marriages in this country between a man and a woman end up in divorce 60% of the time. And, of that 60%, almost 70% are due to infidelity, abuse, substance abuse, or some other serious issue. Seems heterosexual couples aren't doing an very good job protecting an institution that only they enjoy.

I am not putting down those who are divorced, as I am one of those people. But, to say we need to protect the sanctity of something we as divorcees didn't protect is somewhat hypocritical.

Answer 3

yea, good ole government sticking their nose into my privates again

or at least into my private life again

first it was that stupid seatbelt law, then the smoking bans all over, not to mention the alcohol bans and the silly laws about how you are supposed to have sex in some states.

now here come the wonderful elected politicians again to save my life and instill their sense of what is right and what is wrong
and it seems that these polititians are supported at times by an army of brainless dolts to give them some of their absurd ideas

lets say that i meet a girl and marry her, but because of a war injury i can't ever have children, so that makes my mariage invalid, i am invalid?

lets say that i already have a child (which i do) and i marry a woman who has a child or two but had a hystorectomy performed and can't have children, does that make her invalid?

lets say that i don't want to have kids and my wife don't want to have kids, does that make us invalid?

now here we come into this whole thing about benefits to married people, where do these benefits come from? are we talking about health benefits? are we talking about insurance benefits? tax benefits?

i didn't realize that homosexuals paid less taxes because they are homosexuals and so are not deserving of any tax breaks or incentives

and i always thought that denying a group of people based on things like religion or color or sexual orientation was the basis of discrimination

are homosexuals any less human than anyone else?
are they less deserving of the basic rights that others take for granted?

i may not care for them, and i may not want to see them, but i am not willing to discriminate against them in this fashion

Answer 4

this wouldn't have happened if those Mrs. and miss tresses called guy and lesbians wouldn't started it all, moved by what ?:---" Why don't we also have the same privileges of those other people we also pay taxes"....balderdash!!!! this is sacrilege..another fly in the soup from those stubborn crooked minded people that just because they don't care about God's commandments, they're trying to make life harder for others just for the heck of it, and what is worst the stupid ones are going to support them!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

This is just absurd!!!