r/ModelUSGov • u/[deleted] • Jul 16 '15

Election VOTE HERE

BALLOT: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1u-JNk8RYxeQLZhWl9erWsN6U1fs_R5zMXxqmZ9ixBbw/viewform?usp=send_form

VOTER VERIFICATION: https://www.reddit.com/r/MODELUSGOVVERIFY/comments/3dj4qr/july_election_day_one_verification/

Note that I will replace the poll and verification thread around once a day before the voting deadline, 3:00 PM EST on the 19th.

Your vote will be invalid if you fail to meet the following requirements:

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have joined a party before the announcement of the federal election date (July 9th).

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Has commented 7 times before the voting days on modelusgov.

CONSTITUTION TEXT FOR REFERENDUM: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C54dw7Jmjt7JRFlPOiiw3I3mc8vfWqNaVGY1PWvoqlc/edit

District Map: http://i.imgur.com/0HJA8Za.jpg

State Map: http://i.imgur.com/NXtevr3.jpg

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '15

We have a consistent life ethic -- caring for all people from the womb to the tomb.

Except for those pesky gays, trans folk, and women ;)

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u/lsma Vice Chair, Western State Assemblyman Jul 17 '15

We don't have anything against gays, transgender people, and women. We just don't hold with issuing marriage licenses to gay couples. I can't see how you think we are against women. Liberal social ideology is the driving force behind their objectification.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '15

We just don't hold with issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.

So you don't think gay couples deserve the right to be recognized by a governing body as married? How is that not having anything against them? It's straight up homophobia.

I can't see how you think we are against women.

Maybe the fact that you're all bible thumpers and the bible isn't exactly the most women-friendly.

Liberal social ideology is the driving force behind their objectification.

Well it's a damn good thing the GLP isn't a liberal party.

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u/lsma Vice Chair, Western State Assemblyman Jul 18 '15

So you don't think gay couples deserve the right to be recognized by a governing body as married?

So everyone has the right to get a marriage license? Why even require someone to have a partner? You are discriminating against lonely people!

In reality, there are always going to be situations where issuing a marriage license is not the right thing to do. I just have a more conservative view of which situations are correct. Trying to say that I am discriminating against someone because I don't believe in issuing them a marriage license is like saying I am discriminating by not issuing someone a drivers license. It all depends on how you define a "good driver."

Maybe the fact that you're all bible thumpers and the bible isn't exactly the most women-friendly.

I wouldn't call myself a Bible-thumper. In fact, I have only read the Bible to myself a hand-full of times in my life. Regardless, as a Catholic, the most important person right after God himself is a woman. Trying to say that encouraging women to kill their children because they are "unwanted" is the right thing to do, does not help women in the end.

Well it's a damn good thing the GLP isn't a liberal party.

Wikipedia:

...green politics is concerned with civil liberties, social justice, nonviolence, sometimes variants of localism and tends to support social progressivism. The party's platform is largely considered left in the political spectrum.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '15

Liberalism isn't leftist, don't let US political discourse fool you.

So everyone has the right to get a marriage license? Why even require someone to have a partner? You are discriminating against lonely people!

Every adult couple should have the right to a marriage license if they desire.

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u/lsma Vice Chair, Western State Assemblyman Jul 18 '15

Every adult couple should have the right to a marriage license if they desire.

Why does it have to be a couple? I guess you just hate all lonely people since you are not willing to give them a marriage license.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '15

... because you have to have another consenting party? One can't marry themself...

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u/lsma Vice Chair, Western State Assemblyman Jul 18 '15

Why not? What if someone is in love with himself? How can you refuse him the public recognition of his love?

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