If you picked up a copy of TIME magazine this week, you may have noticed a little article by AP reporter Rachel La Corte titled “Ballot: Married People Must Have Kids.”

According to the article, a group called the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance is proposing a new bill that would require married couples to have children within three years, or their marriages would be over.

“……The measure would require couples to prove they can have children to get a marriage license. Couples who do not have children within three years could have their marriages annulled. All other marriages would be defined as “unrecognized,” making those couples ineligible for marriage benefits…

The group said the proposal was aimed at “social conservatives who have long screamed that marriage exists for the sole purpose of procreation.”

I think this is going to far. To say that in order to marry the one you love you must have children, and within a certain time frame? It is ridiculous. I have lots of friends that are married, all of which waited different lengths of time before having children. My one girlfriend was married for 8 years before she and her husband decided they were ready.