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Bill: Adoption Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Freedom 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 2132
Description[?]:
We propose that in addition to heterosexual couples and singles, homosexual couples and singles should be permitted to adopt children. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 11:00:05, October 12, 2005 CET |
From | Social Dynamist Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform | Message | Our party policy is not one of bigotry; we continue to support the rights of homosexuals. |
Date | 21:21:08, October 12, 2005 CET |
From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform | Message | Why do you oppose giving homosexual people equal protection under the law? |
Date | 03:32:23, October 13, 2005 CET |
From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform | Message | Since when do religion and the state mix? If a religion wants to only let straight couples adopt, fine, but the option should be there for those who are adopting from state orphanages. |
Date | 03:53:40, October 13, 2005 CET |
From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform | Message | Our country's motto is "United in Freedom" or had you all forgotten? Should everyone be free to adopt a child or only those that follow all the rules of a specific religion? Perhaps just those of a certain race? How about just people who are divorced? Doesn't that sound fair and free? No? Well, neither does blocking someone from adoption just because they fall in love with people of their own gender. |
Date | 16:30:31, October 14, 2005 CET |
From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform | Message | Apparently, someone here doesn't recognize the fact that we are a moral and a religious nation. Because of this, we will go with them. We oppose this bill. |
Date | 22:25:30, October 14, 2005 CET |
From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform | Message | Oh, I see. Religion is more important than civil rights. Gotcha! I'll remember to use Jesus to be a bigotted narrow-minded asshole from now on! |
Date | 04:19:37, October 15, 2005 CET |
From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform | Message | I wouldn't. I'm just going by public opinion polls. We are a moral nation that doesn't support homosexuality. |
Date | 05:57:39, October 15, 2005 CET |
From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform | Message | If every politician went by every public opinion poll alone, civil rights movements would never work. They're always started by minority groups. Eventually outsiders take an interest, but for the most part, the majority opposes giving rights to the minority because they feel superior by having more rights than other people. When the minorities get rights, a few people bitch and moan, but then the people who aren't minorities realize it hasn't hurt them to let other people be equal to them. The minorities get very happy and suddenly the whole minority group is voting for you along with all the people who realized "hey, this isn't fair" and the ones that went "well it didn't hurt anything..." |
Date | 11:42:01, October 15, 2005 CET |
From | Social Dynamist Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform | Message | If 51% of a nation doesn't like the idea of something, it doesn't mean the other 49% should be banned from it. That is not democracy.
It is the responsibility of governments to protect the rights of minorities as well as majorities.
And in this particular case, where there is a shortage of partents, we have an even more compelling duty to some of the most vulnerable children in Tukarali not to ban willing, responsible parents (in potentia) from being able to take care fo them. |
Date | 22:54:40, October 17, 2005 CET |
From | Inactive | To | Debating the Adoption Reform | Message | we also call for a vote (after ekections) |
Date | 19:32:03, October 25, 2005 CET |
From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform | Message | Freedom Party, can we please move this to a vote or delete it please? |
Date | 23:24:03, October 27, 2005 CET |
From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform | Message | I think I was trying to figure out when elections work and with the resetting and stuff it's confusing sorry about waiting for a while before doing it... |
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