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Bill: You Need A Hug Initiative
Details
Submitted by[?]: Shuggoth Progressive 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: December 2176
Description[?]:
| Forbidding all displays of public is simply idiotic in the eyes of most Luthorians. This bill decriminalizes the public hug. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Displays of public affection and obscenity laws.
Old value:: All public displays of affection are illegal, except brief greeting exchanges between close relatives.
Current: Local governments may regulate laws on public acts of affection and obscenity.
Proposed: Sexual intercourse is illegal in public.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:28:35, January 26, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the You Need A Hug Initiative |
| Message | We'd rather keep the ban on sexually implicit actions in public, but will support this and table an amendment afterwards. |
| Date | 19:21:32, January 26, 2006 CET | From | Redneck Party | To | Debating the You Need A Hug Initiative |
| Message | Hugs can be a brief greeting exchange. This is an unneeded bill. |
| Date | 21:44:05, January 26, 2006 CET | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the You Need A Hug Initiative |
| Message | Listen, the only state I can think of that MIGHT have something like the current law is Iran (and I think they might actually be a bit more lenient). We aren't Iran. By doing this, we are angering the people, and that weakens the state. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 562 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 85 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 103 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them." - Bill Vaughan |