Waldo Jaquith

No children, no marriage.

The Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance has gotten an initiative on the ballot that would void any marriage that does not produce children within three years. If the purpose of marriage is to reproduce — as opponents of gay marriage insist — then this should be a no-brainer for them. Right? (Via MeFi)


8 Comments

I really couldn’t care less if they got that passed — if I wanted legal recognition for a relationship, I’d go with a civil union anyway.

Posted by Tim McCormack on 4 February 02007 @ 5pm

Oh, nice! Upon further reading, I see that this is a parody organization — they are floating the proposal as a jab at social conservatives. Well done!

Posted by Tim McCormack on 4 February 02007 @ 5pm

Excellent! It would be even better if it got passed! Now if only something like that happened in VA too.

Posted by TrvlnMn on 4 February 02007 @ 8pm

Tim, I was like you until I read it.

Posted by Sarabeth on 4 February 02007 @ 9pm

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Posted by Equality Loudoun » Marshall/Newman, phone home on 4 February 02007 @ 10pm

So…gays wanting to marry represents absolutely no threat to my marraige, but this certainly would.

Posted by zen on 5 February 02007 @ 12pm

I’m with you Zen. I’m a woman (married to a man) and how can you be “forced” to have children that you don’t want? Won’t that open the door to abused and neglected children? Won’t that threaten an already happy marriage for a couple that chose not to have children? This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

Posted by Dee on 14 February 02007 @ 1am

I think that this whole idea is a great and also like Tim said “a jab at social conservatives” I believe that if this was passed, a lot of people who are not married and do not plan on getting married but have child(ren) with another person would have a lot more responsibility on there hands then just being able to leave their child behind. I see this happening too much in CA. I STRONGLY AGREE WITH THIS BALLOT.

Posted by Bostyon Johnson, President on 21 February 02007 @ 4pm