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Bill: Sex Discrimination act 3242
Details
Submitted by[?]: Secular 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: June 3243
Description[?]:
| Mr. Speaker There has always been huge injustice against women and sexual minorities in Holy Luthori Empire. Secular Party will not tolerate this kind of systematic discrimination anymore. Therefore we will introduce Sex Discrimination act 3242 that will stop this kind of barbarism. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning who can proceed with adoption; in case adoption is legal.
Old value:: Only heterosexual couples may adopt children.
Current: Everyone may adopt children.
Proposed: Everyone may adopt children.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Military stance on homosexuality.
Old value:: Homosexuality is not tolerated in the military. The military actively seeks to remove homosexuals from it.
Current: Homosexuality is allowed in the military.
Proposed: Open homosexuality is not tolerated in the military. The military has a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on sexual relations.
Old value:: Homosexual relations are illegal, but are not prosecuted.
Current: Sexual relations of all types are legal for consenting adults.
Proposed: Sexual relations of all types are legal for consenting adults.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:25:21, January 13, 2012 CET | From | Constitutionalist Imperial League (IA) | To | Debating the Sex Discrimination act 3242 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, The Church clearly indicates that while all homosexuals are not necessarily bad people, homosexuality in and of itself is a sin. To allow homosexuals to adopt children would be unnatural. There is a reason why two men or two women cannot have children of their own, God did not intend it, or else He would have made it possible. That being said, we could support article 4 within very specific circumstances. I yield. |
| Date | 19:10:54, January 13, 2012 CET | From | Secular party | To | Debating the Sex Discrimination act 3242 |
| Message | Mr Speaker As some members of Holy Imperial Diet could be ready to support article 4, but not other articles, we have decided to make new seperate bill for military service of women. I yield. |
| Date | 19:23:23, January 13, 2012 CET | From | Luthori Tory Party | To | Debating the Sex Discrimination act 3242 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I must commend to my right honourable colleagues in the Secular Party the comments of our right honourable colleagues in the Constitutionalist Imperial League that this Bill, in its present form, is not acceptable to the Constitutional National Party. I would further remind the Secular Party that Pope Paul III of the Selucian Catholic Church has reiterated the Church's traditional teaching (and the faith of the Apostles and Fathers) on this matter once again, in his latest encyclical, <i>In Splendoribus Sanctorum</i>, that homosexuality, while not in and of itself sinful, is nevertheless a tendency toward grave sin, and that homosexual relationships remain gravely immoral. It is therefore highly unlikely that His Imperial and Most Excellent Majesty's government will support this Bill. The Constitutional National Party might, however, be prepared to support Article II, in the interests of both charity and pragmatism. I yield the floor. -Rt Hon Peter Sandys-Carteret, Imperial Seal-Bearer |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 46 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 40 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 19 |
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