GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION AT VOTE
Repeal "Freedom of Marriage Act"
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
Category: Repeal
Resolution: GA#15 (http://www.nationstates.net/page=WA_past_resolutions/start=14)
Proposed by: (http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/omigodtheyclonedkenny__566026t2.jpg) Omigodtheyclonedkenny (http://www.nationstates.net/nation=omigodtheyclonedkenny)
Description: WA General Assembly Resolution #15: Freedom of Marriage Act (http://www.nationstates.net/page=WA_past_resolutions/start=14) (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Argument: The World Assembly,
Reaffirming its commitment to the cause of human rights and extending protections for LGBT persons across the NS world,
Resolving itself, however, of the need to remove wasteful, redundant and unnecessary legislation from its books,
Recalling that subsequent to Freedom of Marriage Act's adoption, Resolution #35: The Charter of Civil Rights (COCR) was enacted, forbidding discrimination by governments and/or public-service providers based on any "reductive categorisation," not just sex or sexual preference,
Contending that the passage of COCR eclipses the need for a Freedom of Marriage Act, as COCR effectively outlaws discrimination in the performance and recognition of marriages, and in a far more efficient manner,
Believing that this is evidenced by the fact that Freedom of Marriage Act only addresses discrimination in marriage based on sex, whereas COCR also outlaws discrimination against interracial, interfaith or intercultural couples,
Further condemning the confusing and needlessly complicated legal structure created by Freedom of Marriage Act, in which undefined "religious communities" are exempted from its terms, leaving theocratic regimes and nations with privatized marriage in doubt as to which set of rules they are meant to follow,
Reminding member states that repealing this act will not authorize discrimination against same-sex couples in any way,
Hereby REPEALS Resolution #15: Freedom of Marriage Act.
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