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'Couples must have babies within 3 years'

Stung by the State Supreme Court's ruling upholding a ban on same-sex marriages, proponents of gay marriages in Washington have introduced an initiative that would require heterosexual couples to have a child within three years.

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NEW YORK: Stung by the State Supreme Court's ruling upholding a ban on same-sex marriages, proponents of gay marriages in Washington have introduced an initiative that would require heterosexual couples to have a child within three years of wedding or have their union annulled.

The Washington Defence of Marriage Alliance (WA-DOMA) hoped it would prompt 'discussion about the many misguided assumptions' underlying the state Supreme Court ruling.

The proposal would require couples to prove they can have children to get a marriage licence. Couples who do not have children within three years could have their marriages annulled.

"For many years, social conservatives have claimed that marriage exists solely for the purpose of procreation," said WA-DOMA organiser Gregory Gadow in a statement.

"The Washington Supreme Court echoed that claim in their lead ruling. The time has come for these conservatives to be dosed with their own medicine," Gadow said.

If same-sex couples should be barred from marriage because they can not have children together, all couples who cannot or will not have children together should equally be barred from marriage. And this is what the Defence of Marriage Initiative will do, he added.

The DOMA announced that their proposed initiative has been accepted by the Secretary of State and assigned the serial number 957.

It would be put to vote in the next election in the state.

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