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Bill: Lex Nerva de Aequalitatem
Details
Submitted by[?]: Clara Aurora - COSIRA
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 4412
Description[?]:
| To maintain that only couples can build a suitable family is an anachronistic and outdated idea, and that does not correspond to reality. The quality of a family does not depend on the number of members, but on the individual quality of each of them. For that reason, any person that is suitable should have access to be able to adopt, as well as offer a possible alternative to those who can not have children and have no partner, but who are eager to give their love to a child. Defending that a person needs two paternal figures to fully develop as an individual is an idea as discriminatory as erroneous. Sometimes, and not a few precisely, a single person can bring you more than two different people. Likewise, under the current law those who wish to adopt must pass strict controls to verify that they are suitable, so if individual persons are able to pass them, why should they be deprived of a legitimate option? In relation to divorces, exactly the same thing happens. We are human, and as human beings, we make mistakes. Forcing couples who no longer profess any love to stay together for the "good of family stability" is a lie that does not end well. With the current law, those couples who want to divorce because of major disagreements and who can not, will try to pretend to have suffered violence in their marriage, in a way that allows them to divorce. And does not this generate more instability in a family than a divorce by mutual agreement, where both people know that it was a mistake to join in marriage, and accept a contract that guarantees especially the stability of the children, if any, and their future lives separately? Seia Nerva Caesar Senatus |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning who can proceed with adoption; in case adoption is legal.
Old value:: Only couples may adopt children.
Current: Only heterosexual couples may adopt children.
Proposed: Everyone may adopt children.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The legality of divorces (if marriages are recognised).
Old value:: Divorces are only legal with grounded cause (such as adultery, or violence).
Current: Only divorces that comply with religious doctrine are legal.
Proposed: Divorces are legal, be it mutual consent, grounded cause or if one partner wants it.
Debate
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| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 400 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 350 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: For more information on Particracy's former colonial nations, check out http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6640 |
| Random quote: "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." - Emma Goldman |