Department of You Gotta Be Kidding Me

[bktheirregular]

Ballot initiative would require married couples to "show proof of procreation"

I don't know whether they're serious or deliberately going overboard to take "defense of marriage" to its logical extreme.

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

So would getting a vasectomy or a hysterectomy be the equivalent of a divorce? And if you happen to be sterile, you're just not allowed to marry?

Sounds like someone read The Handmaid's Tale and thought that it was a recipe for Utopia. Brrr.

[perseph.livejournal.com]

It's deliberately going overboard in protest of this Washington State Supreme Court ruling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersen_v._King_County).

Particularly; "In the plurality opinion, Justice Barbara Madsen wrote that 'Limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples furthers procreation, essential to the survival of the human race, and furthers the well-being of children by encouraging families where children are reared in homes headed by the children’s biological parents.'"

[perseph.livejournal.com]

Oh, and this (http://www.wa-doma.org/) is the organization sponsoring the bill.

[perseph.livejournal.com]

Hee! No, actually someone (http://www.wa-doma.org/) just read a recent Washington Supreme Court ruling and decided to use an extreme measure of pointing out the hypocricy.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Once upon a time, someone using extreme measures to point out the ridiculousless of a law or statute would have been the first thing that occurred to me. Now, proposed laws like this just strike me as something that neocons would love to happen. It's not funny when there are people from the President on down who will take it seriously--and think it's a great idea, to boot.