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Bill: Come As You Are Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: September 2620
Description[?]:
| To help our people serve us. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Military stance on homosexuality.
Old value:: Open homosexuality is not tolerated in the military. The military has a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Current: Homosexuality is allowed in the military.
Proposed: Homosexuality is allowed in the military.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:38:55, August 11, 2008 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Come As You Are Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, This would make a mockery of His Majesty's Crown Forces: once the most hardened crusader army in Terra. |
| Date | 21:07:26, August 12, 2008 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Union (IA) | To | Debating the Come As You Are Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, However would it not be better to know so we could make different barracks for them, and different units? For now I shall vote no. |
| Date | 01:45:53, August 13, 2008 CET | From | Neo-Imperial Peoples Vanguard Party (IA) | To | Debating the Come As You Are Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, That is a very good argument, as the argument against homosexuality is that most would not know and become inconvenienced by it on patrol in cold regions where huddling is sometimes necessary. (OOC: Wow, how this debate becomes American idiocy. :P) I yield. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 60 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 140 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: RP laws follow the same passing rules as in-game variable laws. Laws that are not of a constitutional nature require a simple majority "Yes" vote from active parties currently holding seats. Laws that are of a constitutional nature require a 2/3 majority "Yes" vote from active parties currently holding seats. RP laws may be abolished a simple majority vote this applies to ANY RP law. |
| Random quote: "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mahatma Gandhi |