[Vision2020] WA Initiative 1-957 - DOMA

[Megan Prusynski]

Wow, I am shocked that something this backwards and discriminatory  
would even be brought up these days... disgusting. It will never  
pass, hopefully, because that just sounds like fascism.

By that initiative, if I were to marry my boyfriend (assuming we  
lived in WA), we'd have to have kids after 3 years or forfeit our  
marriage?!? So the state would be not only contributing to  
overpopulation, but controlling people's lives. We're not sure I want  
to have kids, and it sure as hell isn't gonna be within 3 years. That  
is just ridiculous (almost makes me think it's a joke!)....

~megan

On Mar 2, 2007, at 1:33 PM, vision2020-request at moscow.com wrote:

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> From: Ellen Roskovich <gussie443 at hotmail.com>
> To: thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Sent: Friday, March 2, 2007 1:10:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Washington Initiative I-957 (Defense of  
> MarriageInitiative)
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> It will never fly.  It is discrimination pure and simple and is  
> offensive to so many different groups.  What a waste of time and  
> effort when there are so many really important issues to be  
> considered.
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> Ellen A. Roskovich
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> From:  "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> To:  "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Subject:  [Vision2020] Washington Initiative I-957 (Defense of  
> MarriageInitiative)
> Date:  Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:43:49 -0800
>>> From the Defense of Marriage Alliance website at:
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>> http://www.wa-doma.org/
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>> "If passed by Washington voters, the Defense of Marriage  
>> Initiative (WA
>> I-957) would:
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>> - add the phrase, 'who are capable of having children with one  
>> another' to
>> the legal definition of marriage;
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>> - require that couples married in Washington file proof of  
>> procreation
>> within three years of the date of marriage or have their marriage
>> automatically annulled;
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>> - 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;"
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>> - establish a process for filing proof of procreation; and make it a
>> criminal act for people in an unrecognized marriage to receive  
>> marriage
>> benefits."
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>> This initiative, as supported by the Defense of Marriage Alliance, is
>> available for downloading and review at:
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>> http://www.wa-doma.org/Initiative.aspx
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>> Although the unwritten purpose of this initiative may be clearly  
>> understood
>> (the denial of same-sex marriages/unions), its passage would further
>> prohibit the marriage of ANY couple that is not capable of  
>> procreating:  the
>> elderly, cancer survivors, women who have undergone  
>> hysterectomies, men who
>> have undergone vasectomies, etc.
> etc.
>>
>> Your thoughts, Vision 2020?
>>
>> Tom "Straight But Not Narrow" Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
>> "Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of  
>> bigotry in
>> that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their  
>> humanity,
>> their dignity and personhood,"
>>
>> - Coretta Scott King (March 30, 1998)

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