Definition of Marriage
The Definition of Marriage resolution built upon the idea of the Gay Rights resolution, and was originally designed to legalize gay marriage in all United Nations states. During the debat on this resolution, many nations pointed out that the loose definition provided by this resolution essentially forced all nations to adopt the widest definitions of marriage and that this resolution legalized beastality. This resolution resulted in a fair amount of friction between nations interested in promoting gay rights and those interested in preventing the United Nations from micromanaging other nations with culturally based laws.
The resolution was repealed Aug. 30, 2006 when two different repeals established a quorum of UN Delegate endorsements. The first repeal, which by many UN members was considered the weaker of the two repeals, passed, hence the second repeal was deleted from the proposal queue.
Resolution Text
| Category: | Human Rights | Strength: | Mild | Proposed By: | Vastiva |
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Description: Description: IN VIEW of the Universal Bill of Human Rights, and the Gay Rights resolution;
The UN HEREBY :
DEFINES marriage as the civil joining of a member of any nation with any other member of any nation, regardless of sex, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, color, or any other characteristic, with the exception of age;
RECOGNIZES age of the individual(s) as a just reason for not recognizing marriage, as per Article One of the Child Protection Act;
FURTHER RECOGNIZES all nation's right to expand this definition beyond species borders as the individual governments see fit.
- Votes For: 11,904
- Votes Against: 7,473
- Implemented: Thu Nov 25 2004
- Repealed: Wed Aug 30 2006
Gameplay Impacts
Though the simple language of this resolution suggests that the definition of marriage extends beyond the scope of just United Nations members, the impacts of UN resolutions are limited to only UN members. The resolution also makes a reference to NationStates the Universal Bill of Human Rights resolution, although the actual name of the resolution is the Universal Bill of Rights. For the purpose of this resolution it can be assumed that they are one and the same.
