Article 2 (Protection of Marriage)
(a) All States shall have the minimum conditions to protect the union of two persons which shall include but are not restricted to provisions regulating the administration of the common estate and the inheritance rights acquired by those entering into such a union.
(b) The protection referred to in the previous section does not automatically confer any rights other than those that the State specifically provides for the protection of the union between two persons.
Our lawyers believe that sections a and b appear to contradict each other. In the Grand Europic States there is no such thing as 'marriage', 'civil unions' or any other legal recognition for unions, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. Also, the state does not distinguish between single and non-single people in estate or inheritance law. We are therefore concerned that the resolution requires us to establish legal recognition of relationships. This would be against our libertarian attitude to this issue in which we believe that the state should not regulate personal relationships.
Several Europians are protesting in the street because they believe that if we were required to regulate relationships, the resolution is unfair because it only protects couples, and not the many triples, fourples and moreples in our great nation. While we would normally send such protesters to a 'mind reorientation camp' the new Press Secretary has decided to try a radically new experiment called 'listening' to protesters concerns. The Europic Diplomatic Corps is very sceptical at this new experiment but we are required to do the bidding of our government.
We therefore wish to know if the resolution requires us to recognise personal relationships and to afford them special consideration in estate and inheritance law as it would appear to suggest.
Europic Diplomatic Corps
Grand Europic States