FlyingChanges11's Blog

A news story just popped across the bottom of CNN....Interested, I went to the webpage.

In Seattle, Washington, the State Supreme Court embraced an amendment that limited marriage to strictly a man and woman. In retaliation, an organization is trying to get initiative 957 on the November ballot that states that marriage should only be between men and woman who can have children. If after 3 years of marriage, the couple is still childless, the marriage would be considered null and void. The state would take action and revoke the marriage certificate.

The movement is a joke to prove how flawed the logic is to prevent same sex couples from getting married. The group is trying to prove that by banning gay marriage, you are essentially saying that couples who can't produce children cannot be married (there is something in the court ruling that cites that as one of the issues...I'm still on Lexus Nexus trying to find it).

I'm sure someone will jump down my throat for this, but I support same sex marriage to the fullest. I do not feel I am in any position to tell people who they can and cannot marry. It doesn't bother me at all. I have several gay friends and all they want is to just be able to live happily like every other couple does...I think that's only fair in a nation that was originally founded on the idea of equality (although the meaning has changed several times over the last 200+ years)..

Technically, until a US Constitutional Amendment is passed, its not illegal due to the Full Faith in Credit Clause and States that pass initiatives banning gay marriage are in violation of the US Constitution...now will that be enforced? Under this president, No. Under another, perhaps, but unlikely because it is too hotly debated. The US Supreme Court would not touch it will a 10 foot pole. But I digress...

How scary is this thinking? What happens if the state embraces the issue and voters pass it in November? I'm sure people will fight it and go to court, but obviously a court with that thinking has a strong chance of supporting such a bill and rejecting any chance to overturn it.

I worry this could spread to other states. I have no intentions of having kids, nor do I want them...so my fiance and I would not be able to carry through on our plans of marriage. We would continue to 'live in sin', which I'm sure will somehow be addressed somewhere down the road...but what screwy logic! It's scary in my eyes. I don't know if anyone else would agree.....

That is just downright scary logic. There are other ways to promote an issue instead of one that actually has the chance of passing!