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OLYMPIA, Wash. - 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.
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," said WA-DOMA organizer
Gregory Gadow in a printed statement. If same-sex couples should be barred from marriage because they cannot
have children together, it follows that all couples who cannot or will not have children together should
equally be barred from marriage."
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