The Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance (WA-DOMA) has filed an initiative that would require married heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or their marriage would be annulled. This group is an extremist organization and proponent of homosexual marriage and homosexual rights.
In a nutshell, the initiative, if passed, would force married couples to prove they can have children in order to get a marriage license, and if they do not produce children within three years, their marriage would be subject to mandatory annulment.
The organizer of WA-DOMA, Gregory Gadow, seems to be a very queer man. He organized this initiative as a challenge to the Washington Supreme Court’s ruling on Andersen v. King County. The July 2006 court decision, declared that a “legitimate state interest” allows the State Legislature to limit marriage to those couples able to have and raise children together. This decision upheld the State’s ban on homosexual marriage.
Gadow apparently took exception to the decision.
In a printed statement he said;
"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.
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."
WA-DOMA will have to gather more than 224,000 signatures by July 6 to put the initiative on the November ballot. As liberal as the State of Washington is, or at least, the Seattle metro area, they just might get the signatures required, but hopefully it won’t pass.
Of course, this initiative attempt is yet another attack on traditional marriage. In the general election of 2004, bans on homosexual marriage succeeded at the polls nation-wide. Just as ballot initiatives legalizing homosexual marriage failed nation-wide.
Homosexual activists just won't or can't accept the fact that the great majority of Americans simply will not legalize homosexual marriage at the ballot box.
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