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Bill: Cultural Respect
Details
Submitted by[?]: Duchy's People's 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: May 2229
Description[?]:
| We must respect the laws and cultures of other nations and peoples. Who are we to say that just because a couples marriage doesn't comply with our own laws that it isn't a marriage - because it is , in the couples homeland. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
The government's policy regarding foreign marriages.
Old value:: Only foreign marriages that comply with domestic policy regarding marriage are recognised.
Current: All foreign marriages are recognised, regardless of domestic policy regarding marriage.
Proposed: All foreign marriages are recognised, regardless of domestic policy regarding marriage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:23:02, May 15, 2006 CET | From |  Christian Democrats | To | Debating the Cultural Respect |
| Message | "This issue was debated and settled in ages past. We came to the conclusion that foreign marriage laws allowed for all sorts of things we don't want in Keymon. Our party - this should surprise nobody! - went around and audited the marriage laws of all of our neighbors. We found that the vast majority of them had laws that permited siblings to marry, polygamy to exist, fathers to marry daughters, people to marry rocks, people to marry animals, and all manner of other strange things. This was found to be undesireable in Keymon. Secondly, allowing foreign marriages to be recognised regardless of what local law says effectively nullifies local law. That was also found to be undesireable. Admittedly, this was in a time when parties could be swayed by reasonable arguments. It was in a time when parties did not consider marriages to rocks, or surrendering Keymon's sovereignty, to be desireable. If that has changed, then shame on this Assembly. Since we have done all the research and found the proposal by the DPP to be without merit, we fully expect them to continue to push for it, decrying, like a putulant child, our efforts to introduce facts into this debate." -- Director General Vivanne Dynamis |
| Date | 23:11:43, May 15, 2006 CET | From | Duchy's People's Party | To | Debating the Cultural Respect |
| Message | If people from other nations want to marry rocks, as you suggest , who are we to stop them. Aslong as our own marriage laws reflect the wishes of keymon's public why should we interfere with the laws of other nations. |
| Date | 00:14:55, May 16, 2006 CET | From | Christian Democrats | To | Debating the Cultural Respect |
| Message | "We won't interfere with their laws. . . until they move here. That which is legal abroad should not automatically be legal in Keymon. If someone wants to get married abroad, that's their prerogative and that is not what this law is about. The problem is whether we treat such marriages as being legal in Keymon. I think the honorable gentleman misunderstands the meaning of the word 'recognize' in the legal context. It means that we will honor their marriages, and that their marriages will be legally-binding in Keymon. That is why we should not pass this bill." -- Director General Vivanne Dynamis |
| Date | 14:18:02, May 16, 2006 CET | From | Duchy's People's Party | To | Debating the Cultural Respect |
| Message | I understand the meaning of recognise all too well, that is the whole point of this bill. |
| Date | 09:05:20, May 18, 2006 CET | From | Keymon Ruling Party | To | Debating the Cultural Respect |
| Message | If we had more rational options available in our own domestic law, then I would not see the need to change this. But we don't, so I do... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 60 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 44 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 16 |
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