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Bill: Same sex marriage
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Democrats
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 2367
Description[?]:
| The rights that are granted to couples that are living together (such as the ability to inherit) must be available to all couples indiscriminately. The right of a marriage should be available to all conscenting adults, be it heterosexual or not. The Social Democrats have stated these rights in our Manifesto and will not back off from them. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy toward marriage.
Old value:: The government only recognises civil marriages between a man and a woman.
Current: The government allows all consenting adults to obtain civil marriage contracts.
Proposed: The government allows all consenting adults to obtain civil marriage contracts.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:59:05, February 27, 2007 CET | From | S.C.A.F.R. | To | Debating the Same sex marriage |
| Message | yes,this is our law that is not passed at last time. we agree |
| Date | 11:14:41, February 28, 2007 CET | From | Aldegar Freedom Party | To | Debating the Same sex marriage |
| Message | The TCP views this bill as propostorous and it must be forfit at once. Same sex marriages are an insult to the hundred year old sacred bond that is marriage. The TCP also reminds the SDP and SCA that marriage is a RELIGIOUS concept, and considering religious institutions see homosexuals as a violation of religion, they should not be allowed to partake in religious practices\vowes of any kind. It is the churches right to decide who can get married and who cannot, as marriage is THEIR concept. If homosexuals want to engage in a life long commitment to one another, so be it, but marriage is a religious bond and one of its fundamental prerequisits is that one party be a male, and the other be a female. The TCP will not be persuaded on this issue. |
| Date | 12:35:50, February 28, 2007 CET | From | Communist Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Same sex marriage |
| Message | We will vote yes. |
| Date | 15:33:40, March 02, 2007 CET | From | Social Democrats | To | Debating the Same sex marriage |
| Message | We are appaled to hear such clearly wrong views on marriage on the TCP side - while marriage is indeed a ritual taken place in churches, mosques, temples and so on, a legal communion between couples, which does not have exclusively religious conscequences. Couples may have certain advantages when it comes to inheritance, tax deductions or similar measures. Whatever the communion is called it is legally accepted by the government to recieve such "bonuses". We feel it is inappropriate that some couples have such rights taken away just because of their sexual orientation! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 360 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 290 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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