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As much as I love Seattle and the beauty and great wine of Washington, I might just have to boycott the entire state if this unbelievably lame initiative were, by some idiotic chance, to pass.

I mean, I understand where they’re going, but saying, “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” is short-sided, because to further the cause of same-sex parenthood, you sacrifice childfree-by-choice couples, those struggling with infertility and married couples with children who honestly, would be better off divorced…among many, many others. I don’t care what you do, but don’t drag my lifestyle choice into your battle…because your proposal is such a slippery slope…and you’re making assumptions that may sound like out-of-the-park hits, but what happens if you’re wrong?

Don’t want to have kids? Sorry, your marriage won’t be recognized. Can’t have kids biologically and plan on adopting? Sorry, your marriage won’t be recognized, either. Forget the fact you’ve been married 5…10…however many years. By some stroke of circumstance, did you have to have a hysterectomy at 17? Forget about marriage. Husband beats you? Sorry, because you have children, under this initiative, you couldn’t get divorced. What about the couple where the woman is past childbearing age; i.e., post-menopausal? Sorry, but thanks for playing.

Having said all that, what happens…let’s say…if the court doesn’t strike these initiatives down as unconstitutional, as the supporters assume? Guess whose lives are altered forever? Ours…not theirs. Their situation doesn’t change a bit. They’re no better or worse off than they are now. Those people affected by this initiative will now need to band together and circle the wagons and organize, while the supporters of this initiative sit back and watch social conservatives choke on their own rhetoric.

Are you willing to sacrifice yourselves for their cause?

Initiative 957

If passed by Washington voters, the Defense of Marriage Initiative would:

• add the phrase, “who are capable of having children with one another” to the legal definition of marriage;
• require that couples married in Washington file proof of procreation within three years of the date of marriage or have their marriage automatically annulled;
• require that couples married out of state file proof of procreation within three years of the date of marriage or have their marriage classed as “unrecognized;”
• establish a process for filing proof of procreation; and
  make it a criminal act for people in an unrecognized marriage to receive marriage benefits.

You know what this means, of course. Callie & George had better pick up the pace. Time’s a wastin’.