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Wash. initiative would require married couples to have kids
Wash. initiative would require married couples to have kids
An extreme attack on the family. I hope this never becomes a law. picked by WheresMySanity 2 years ago
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 TheBlueF...
2 years ago
« WheresMySanity : Wash. initiative would require married couples to ...

An extreme attack on the family. I hope this never becomes a law.
If you notice this part of the article:

“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 can not have children together, it follows that all couples who cannot or will not have children together should equally be barred from marriage."
This is actually a tactic to repeal the ban on same sex marriage. They propose that if this concept is too extreme an interpretation of the law, that the reasoning that they used to ban same sex marriage would be equally extreme. It's called setting a legal precedent to build your case upon.
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 jaxomlot...
2 years ago
Beautiful response Frog!

I think it's a very smart tactic they are following. If they can't have benefits and it's because "they can't have kids" then why should any couple that doesn't have kids share benefits under the same letter of the law? Obviously the law is poorly written and needs to be revised.

I really think that marriage as a legal entity for establishing relationships for possession and guardianship is going to have to recognize non-married people at some point.

Forget about their sex-lives. If two people live as roommates and happen to be male and female, they are usually treated as common-law spouses, regardless of their actual sexual relationship. Why limit it there? If two male roommates want to gain insurance benefits from each other, why should the law stop them from binding each other as legal brothers?

That's my take anyway. I'm not commenting on the sexual aspect of it. Just the legal aspect.
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 2manyuse...
2 years ago
Sorry, this is a repost:
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