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Bill: Marriage Reform Act of 2754
Details
Submitted by[?]: House Lusk-Nat'l Syndicalist Party (UM)
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: November 2754
Description[?]:
| This act will disallow the unhealthy and regressive practice of polygamy, which is primarily found in child-molesting cults and tribal cultures and makes marriage more about competition for the "most wives" instead of about providing a stable household for children. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to polygamy.
Old value:: Polygamous marriages are accorded equal recognition to monogamous marriages.
Current: Polygamous marriages are accorded equal recognition to monogamous marriages.
Proposed: The government does not recognise polygamous relationships and prosecute those who pursue a polygamous lifestyle.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:20:39, May 10, 2009 CET | From |  Roccato Anarcho-Syndicalist Union | To | Debating the Marriage Reform Act of 2754 |
| Message | The RASU opposes. This is religious persecution, pure and simple. |
| Date | 00:18:48, May 11, 2009 CET | From | Modern Revolutionary Socialist Party | To | Debating the Marriage Reform Act of 2754 |
| Message | We do not see this as just religious persecution but just persecution. The marriages you propose may well be illegal anyway and you are making huge statements with no evidence. There are people with no religious affiliation who decide to have a polygamous relationship and we can see no problem with that |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 197 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 553 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: It is the collective responsibility of the players in a nation to ensure all currently binding RP laws are clearly outlined in an OOC reference bill in the "Bills under debate" section of the nation page. Confusion should not be created by displaying only some of the current RP laws or displaying RP laws which are no longer current. |
| Random quote: "Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy." - Ludwig von Mises |