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[pearwaldorf]

So apparently there's some crazy group calling themselves the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance that's trying to put a ballot initiative that would require (hetero, of course) married couples to have children within three years of marriage. They also want to put initiatives up that would disallow couples with children from divorcing and making having children together the equivalent of marriage. Of course, it's utter silliness, and if it does get passed it would be struck down by the Washington supreme court, thus nullifying their previous ruling (which is the point), but I do not think such Colbertean humor would register in most people's brains. Not that I can really blame them, because there are wingnuts that probably would do this if they thought it could pass.

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[aprilbegins.livejournal.com]

Oh...wow. Wow. I like married couples devoid of wee terrors of tomorrow. And what of couples who can't conceive?

I'm so tired of the world population rapidly rising. I'm already here, so it can stop.

[faintgraylines.livejournal.com]

Ugh. While I get what WA-DOMA's trying to do, there are people in these parts that think the whole point of marriage is to have a litter of kids, that it's not dishonest to "convince" a man he wants more children, and that something's wrong if you don't want a baaayyybeee before you're 25 (I turn 25 in six months). If this came up in Jesusland, there are plenty of people who would vote for it. My own mother had a freak-out when I told her that Stephen and I were thinking of getting an IUD, saying "five years is too loooong!!1!"