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Bill: Recognition of Marriage Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Democratic Union
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: July 3670
Description[?]:
| Believing that it is the right of the citizen to marry whomever the citizen loves, and therefore, it is not the responsibility of the government to interfere with the civil union of citizens. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy toward marriage.
Old value:: The government only recognises civil marriages between a man and a woman.
Current: The government only recognises civil marriages between a man and a woman.
Proposed: The government allows all consenting adults to obtain civil marriage contracts.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:22:07, May 13, 2014 CET | From | Hosian Democratic Alliance | To | Debating the Recognition of Marriage Act |
| Message | We bear no ill will towards homosexuals and oppose all injustices against them, but we insist that marriage is and has always been a contract between a male and a female. |
| Date | 12:57:46, May 20, 2014 CET | From | Hosian Democratic Alliance | To | Debating the Recognition of Marriage Act |
| Message | OOC: Do you want to put this forward for voting? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 99 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 78 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 124 |
| Random fact: Moderation will not approve a Cultural Protocol request within the first 48 hours of it being requested. This is in order to give other players a chance to query the proposed changes, if they wish to do so. Moderation may be approached for advice on a proposed change, but any advice proffered should always be understood under the provisio that no final decision will be made until at least 48 hours after the request has been formally submitted for approval. |
| Random quote: "You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose." - Harry Browne |