Comments on: Defend Traditional Marriage In Washington

By: albatross

albatross — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:54:13 +0000

See, this is what you get when you let liberals make laws. First they get rid of all the guns, and then they have to find some complicated legal solution to make pregnancy lead to marriage. Haven’t these guys ever heard of shotguns?

By: 9to1

9to1 — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:33:56 +0000

Would this mean that anyone who had children with more than one other person would be jailed for bigamy?

By: bint alshamsa

bint alshamsa — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:54:23 +0000

This seems like an absolutely disastrous idea. Maybe I’m panicking but it seems like the results could be catestrophic if this was passed and the courts did NOT act as the authors of it are hoping they would. It’s a hell of a lot to risk. Of course, this sounds especially frightening to me given the implications that something like this could have even if it’s only around temporarily until the courts go through the motions of striking it down. I’m the mother of a child with someone I never married and we haven’t been a couple in a little over a decade. My significant other and I have raised my daughter together for over six years, which is more than half of her life. I can’t get married because I am currently dying from cancer and if I did, then I’d be kicked off of the medicare program that I need to pay for my medical needs. If it were declared that any two people having a child together is the equivalent of having a marriage ceremony, then my ex-boyfriend would suddenly become my ex-husband which would entitle him to a lot greater standing in the family courts when it comes to who will have custody of my daughter when I die.
This is far too complicated for me to even wrap my brains around right now. There has got to be a better way!

By: tamzen

tamzen — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:01:26 +0000

Love it. Celtic marriage in Ireland required pregnancy to prove the couple was suitable. :)

By: Antonomasia

Antonomasia — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:20:53 +0000

This may be on the radio soon – I’ve mentioned it to WOTMR.
http://www.wayofthemasterradio.com/

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:01:55 +0000

Also…shouldn’t old people be barred, too? I mean, if two 75 year-olds get hitched, they clearly won’t be able to procreate or even adopt, I would say.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:00:07 +0000

Are they using ‘initiative’ in the sense of “initiative, referendum, and recall’?