Proposal to be repealed by such: Defending Rights of Sexual and Gender Minorities
Rule Violated: Honest Mistake
Argument (That is is a HM violation): From the author of the proposal at-vote/which would be repealed;
Maowi wrote:This proposal would not enforce the legalisation of polygamy. It defines civil marriage as "a legally recognised union between two or more people as partners in a personal relationship, solemnised as a civil contract with or without religious ceremony." So if your nation allows civil marriages between, say, one man and one woman, it must allow civil marriages between two people of any gender or sexuality. If it allows civil marriages between e.g. one man and any number of women, it must allow civil marriages between any number of people of amy sexuality or gender. If it is a nation that only allows civil marriages between one man and three women, it must allow civil marriages between four people of any sexuality or gender.
Counter-Argument (that it does not violate such): From myself;
Lord Dominator wrote:OOC: I totally agree that the reasonable reading it that 'two or more' includes polyamory but doesn't call all of them such. However, it is implicitly recognizing polyamory as a possible state of a legal civil marriage, which is then (civil marriage that is) required by the proposal to be legally recognized as valid in all member nations. In other words, since the definition includes such and is then required, polyamory becomes legally required as a marriage option in member nations.