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Bill: Adoption Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dranish Conservative 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: April 3482
Description[?]:
| Children in need of adoption need to be found the very best homes. In order to facilitate this, an overhaul of our adoption procedures is needed. President Rafael Duvalle Chairman of the Dranish Conservative Party |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning adoption.
Old value:: Adoption is regulated by the government. Applicants can adopt after a routine check-up.
Current: Adoption is strictly regulated by the government. Only by passing several tests and by following an intensive program applicants can adopt children.
Proposed: Adoption is regulated by private, recognised organisations.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning who can proceed with adoption; in case adoption is legal.
Old value:: Everyone may adopt children.
Current: Everyone may adopt children.
Proposed: Only heterosexual couples may adopt children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:56:18, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, thank god all single mothers and same-sex couples raising children now know that President Duvalle has collectively dismissed them from belonging to the category of "very best homes". Disgusting remarks like this are the reason why Mr Duvalle is so utterly, completely and inherently unfit to do what a President is supposed to do: Keep his views - in his case his bigoted, narrow-minded and discriminating views - to himself and represent all citizens of his great country instead of dividing them into "very best" and "not so good" groups. Troy Overton MP Member for Elbian RFR Justice Spokesman |
| Date | 20:45:00, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Dranish Conservative Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I resent the liberal bigotry of Troy Overton and those like him. All of the sociological evidence demonstrates that children do best when raised by a man and a woman who enjoy a stable relationship with each other. Just because we want children to be given the best possible upbringing does not mean we are "disgusting" or "bigoted, narrow-mindied and discriminating". President Rafael Duvalle Chairman of the Dranish Conservative Party |
| Date | 22:34:14, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, one can never generally claim that it is preferable for a child to be brought up by a random couple rather than a random single mother or a random homosexual couple. Instead of reducing these people to their sexuality or form of relationship, they should be seen as individuals - and any decent individual is capable of providing the love and care that is required to raise a child. Of course, that would be too much to ask from a populist President whose political survival depends solely on the support of the ardently homophobic Werin Deg. Troy Overton MP Member for Elbian RFR Justice Spokesman |
| Date | 23:10:05, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Dranish Conservative Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, this legislation is not about somehow trying to insult gays and lesbians. Rather, it is about making sure every child in Dranland gets the very best start in life - and all of the evidence shows that children are best brought up by a man and a woman. It is useful to a child to have both a male and a female role model, and to experience both the male and female parenting styles. All we are asking for is Common Sense. It is Troy Overton who is dragging "homophobia" into this, not me. President Rafael Duvalle Chairman of the Dranish Conservative Party |
| Date | 23:31:42, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, I don't know where Mr Duvalle gets his evidence from, but common sense tells us that children are best brought up by any loving, caring and responsible person, regardless whether that person currently lives with a partner - whether in a straight or same-sex relationship - or is a single. It is hugely discriminatory to tell these people they are not good enough to adopt children, and is consequently indeed an insult not only to gays and lesbians, but also to singles. Troy Overton MP Member for Elbian RFR Justice Spokesman |
| Date | 23:44:30, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Dranish Conservative Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Troy Overton is the one who has brought insults into this debate, blatantly insulting conservatives and trying to pretend that we are insulting gays when we are not - all we are doing is standing up for child welfare. Troy Overton is prejudiced against children. He is so enamoured with liberal political correctness that he is prepared to discriminate against children in order to keep the militant homosexual rights lobby on his side. President Rafael Duvalle Chairman of the Dranish Conservative Party |
| Date | 00:38:27, May 06, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, once again Mr Duvalle reveals his deep and unchanged hatred for homosexuals by slandering them as "militants" for claiming their freedom to enjoy family life just as much as heterosexuals, a freedom that the fake conservatives, who in fact are nothing but big government fanatics who want to let the state determine the nature of families, want to take away from them. Who is Mr Duvalle to judge whether a person is fit to raise a child solely based upon his sexuality? Obviously the President's massive, bloated ego has led him to believe that his role in the Dranish state is really that of a supreme decision-maker to whose judgement every individual shall be subjected in his family planning. Get a clue, Mr President, you're not a king! Troy Overton MP Member for Elbian RFR Justice Spokesman |
| Date | 01:21:08, May 06, 2013 CET | From | Dranish Conservative Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, the only "homophobia" that exists here is in Troy Overton's own imagination. Under this legislation, if someone wants to adopt a child, then they need to team up with a member of the opposite gender in order to offer a loving and nurturing home to that child. Gays and lesbians are free to do this, just like everybody else. It is Troy Overton who is dragging sexuality into this debate, not me. All I am doing is putting the interests of the child first. President Rafael Duvalle Chairman of the Dranish Conservative Party |
| Date | 02:28:59, May 06, 2013 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I believe that I surprise no one when I reveal our support for this bill. This isn't really a matter of scientific discussion on to what extent an upbringing by gays are harmful to the child. It's a matter of principle, of norms and the customs that hold our society together, and of the natural rights that we as conservatives, and as libertarians, center our philosophy around. There is no doubt that it's part of the human nature to have one male and one female parent, we are all born with that, and that union constitutes the smallest, most core unit of society, which is also why only that union can be defined as a marriage. When this isn't the case, the government should try to recreate the normal state of upbringing for the child. This is why we shouldn't allow homosexuals to adopt children as their own, or let polygamous outcasts force children to name their various sex partners as "mum" or "dad". The children bought into the governments custody should be given a safe a stable upbringing, and not be subject to any radical experiments that alienates them from the rest of the society. Ragnar Solfjord, MP Party Tanist of the Werin Deg |
| Date | 19:17:54, May 06, 2013 CET | From | Centre Democrats | To | Debating the Adoption Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I would like to know why homosexual couples should be any less capable to raise a child. This bill shows our President's narrowmindedness and homophobia, it is a disgrace. Sofie Hansen (R) Spokesperson for Civil Liberties |
| Date | 19:19:00, May 06, 2013 CET | From | Centre Democrats | To | Debating the Adoption Reform Act |
| Message | And Mr. Speaker, Why are single parents are worse parents then couples? Sofie Hansen (R) Spokesperson for Civil Liberties |
| Date | 20:25:37, May 06, 2013 CET | From | Dranish Conservative Party | To | Debating the Adoption Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, we are not saying that single parents or people with a homosexual orientation are intrinsically less able to raise children. All we are saying is that to be given the best chance in life, a child needs mummy and daddy. A team made up of a man and a woman who are committed to each other and their family is the best environment to bring up a child in. And Dranish children deserve nothing but the best. President Rafael Duvalle Chairman of the Dranish Conservative Party |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 215 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 184 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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