The Flight Deck

This is fringe news, to be sure. And it will never gain momentum, that’s true. But I will never understand people who believe this kind of thing is a way to advance their issue, even while they acknowledge it could be viewed as absurd.  In part, as reported by the A.P., it says:

“…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.”

It’s a response from the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance(WA-DOMA) to a decision passed by the Washington State Supreme Court in July 2006 which said, in part:

“…a “legitimate state interest” allows the Legislature to limit marriage to those couples able to have and raise children together.”

The Court’s decision is an effort to define marriage as being between a man and a woman, thereby making same-sex marriage illegal.  And the WA-DOMA wants to bring the law into practice, in a three-pronged attack:

1. married couples procreate within 3 years, or have their marriage annulled
2. prohibit divorce or legal separation when there are children
3. make the act of having a child together the legal equivalent of a marriage ceremony

Among their many reasons for advancing this measure, the WA-DOMA says this:

“…at the very least, it should be good fun to see the social conservatives who have long screamed that marriage exists for the sole purpose of procreation be forced to choke on their own rhetoric.”

So it’s about allowing gay marriage.  And no matter on which side of this issue you fall, it’s a damned odd way to go about your activism, doncha think? 

h/t to Geezerville USA