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Bill: Challenging the Status Quo
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: March 2251
Description[?]:
| "This thing's gotta happen every five years or so—ten years—helps to get rid of the bad blood." -Pete Clemenza, "The Godfather" |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy toward marriage.
Old value:: The government allows all consenting adults to obtain civil marriage contracts.
Current: The government only recognises civil marriages between a man and a woman.
Proposed: The government only recognises civil marriages between a man and a woman.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on public nudity.
Old value:: There are no laws with regards to public nudity, it is allowed.
Current: Public nudity is illegal and prosecuted as a civil offence.
Proposed: Public nudity is illegal, but private nudist colonies and beaches are permitted.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Displays of public affection and obscenity laws.
Old value:: There are no laws regarding obscene public acts.
Current: All sexually implicit actions are illegal in public.
Proposed: Sexual intercourse is illegal in public.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:40:22, July 05, 2006 CET | From |  Liberal Party | To | Debating the Challenging the Status Quo |
| Message | Of course, we will oppose, but we think it best that issues such as these are revisited from time to time. Debate never hurt anyone, did it? |
| Date | 21:16:04, July 05, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Challenging the Status Quo |
| Message | Just as a point of game mechanics, by voting against your own bills you will decrease the amount of votes your party gains. The DSP might actually be willing to support article 3 if it were proposed separately. |
| Date | 01:32:12, July 06, 2006 CET | From | Ikradonian Faith Party | To | Debating the Challenging the Status Quo |
| Message | Actually, we support all three provisions. They provide the best and safest circumstances for raising little Ikradonians. |
| Date | 05:42:35, July 06, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Party | To | Debating the Challenging the Status Quo |
| Message | It's not about game mechanics. It's about responses like the one from the IFP, that foster debate on the issue. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 102 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 395 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 102 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope." - Niccolo Machiavelli |