{"id":222,"date":"2007-02-06T09:55:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T14:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marktime.org\/?p=222"},"modified":"2009-01-26T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T16:02:10","slug":"washington-state-marriages-children-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Washington State Marriages – Children Required"},"content":{"rendered":"

(My alternate title:\u00a0 The Gay Rights Movement Loses A Supporter Again)<\/p>\n

The gay rights folks in Washington State have gone too far.\u00a0 Once again, they have found a way to piss off straight supporters in their bid for gay marriage.<\/p>\n

The Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance<\/a> is proposing a ballot initiative (957) that would:<\/p>\n

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  1. Require that heterosexual couples prove that they are able to have children before they can receive a marriage license, and<\/li>\n
  2. Automatically annul any Washington marriage that fails to produce children within 3 years, and<\/li>\n
  3. Require proof that couples married outside of Washington state file proof of procreation within 3 years of their wedding, or be labeled “unrecognized”, and<\/li>\n
  4. Establish a process to prove procreation, and<\/li>\n
  5. Make it a crime for people in an “unrecognized” marriage to receive marriage benefits.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Carolyn and I have decided not to have children, for reasons that I don’t feel the need to go into here.\u00a0 This would directly affect us if we lived in Washington.<\/p>\n

    The WDOMA folks clearly recognize that this is absurd.\u00a0 They are hoping that challenges to this law would cause the Washington Supreme Court to overturn their previous ruling.<\/p>\n

    What this move fails to do is take into account the degree to which gay rights folks can anger their straight supporters.\u00a0 Making my marriage illegal in order to try to make yours legal is not a good strategy.\u00a0 It angers me.\u00a0 I’ve been a strong supporter of gay rights, but if this type of move were to propagate across the country, I would drop that support – because MY marriage would be under attack by those whom I support.<\/p>\n

    Let’s face it – homosexual people are at most 10% of the population.\u00a0 In order to have laws changed to support gay marriage, the support of a significant portion of the straight population is required.\u00a0 This move – by directly attacking all heterosexuals INCLUDING YOUR SUPPORTERS – is doomed to fail.\u00a0 Worse than that, it will erode the support of the gay rights movement among straight people.<\/p>\n

    Drop this attempt.\u00a0 You are dangerously close to losing my support.\u00a0 You NEED the support of straight people in order to achieve your agenda.