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Bill: Institution of Marriage Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Reform Party
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: February 2939
Description[?]:
| Marriage is a private, social institution derived from the biological imperative of a man and woman joining together for the purpose of procreation. It is rooted in man's nature, and is therefore a development of natural society rather than a creation of superficial government policy. But current federal marriage policy denies this reality, seeking to arbitrarily recreate one of civil society's most important institutions in accordance with some fallacious, abstract notion of homosexual 'equality'. To impose homosexual equality on society through means of social engineering, allowing homosexuals to 'marry', is to arbitrarily redefine a fundamental social institution, as a marriage between two people who can never naturally reproduce contradicts the sole purpose for the institution's existence, making it something different altogether. Furthermore, as homosexuals cannot reproduce, and as they are not born with their 'preferences', but seemingly choose them or develop them as a result of external or mental factors, the homosexual relationship is merely an aberration from normative human behaviour; it is entirely arbitrary to perceive homosexuals as 'equals' to heterosexuals when they lack the natural reproductive capacity inherent to human-beings as a species that enables their survival. Most importantly, as marriage is inextricably connected to the family, the cornerstone of civilized society, State efforts to intervene and artificially construct homosexuals as equals will do untold damage. Therefore, the Reform Party believes the federal government should not presume to define (or re-define) marriage - which is not a government construction but a product of civil society reflecting a biological imperative - on behalf of homosexual special interests and bizarre ideology. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy toward marriage.
Old value:: The government allows all consenting adults to obtain civil marriage contracts.
Current: The government allows all consenting adults to obtain civil marriage contracts.
Proposed: The government does not involve itself in marriage or civil unions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:29:00, May 11, 2010 CET | From | Rutanian Restoration Party | To | Debating the Institution of Marriage Act |
| Message | We fully support this measure. Marriage is a religious and social institution, not a political one. |
| Date | 03:31:20, May 17, 2010 CET | From | Labour Democracy Party | To | Debating the Institution of Marriage Act |
| Message | The Labour Democracy Party is clearly behind this legislation,and supports it in its entirety! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 361 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 98 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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