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Bill: Prayer in Schools
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Centrist Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2037
Description[?]:
| No government-run school will be found as endorsing any religion, and in that sense, teacher-led prayers should be outlawed. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Current: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Prayer in Schools |
| Message | We support this |
| Date | not recorded | From | People's Party | To | Debating the Prayer in Schools |
| Message | Given that public education does not exist, this bill is irrelevant. However if this is an attempt to regulate private schools then we oppose it very strongly. Education for children under adult age. Education is entirely voluntary. From http://wilma.vub.ac.be/~wlievens/particracy/particracy/viewvariables.php?nationid=17 |
| Date | not recorded | From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the Prayer in Schools |
| Message | No, i would not support this. Also a proposal should be added, or a new bill introduced, making education compulsary and state funded. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Prayer in Schools |
| Message | We have proposed a Universal Education Bill |
| Date | not recorded | From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the Prayer in Schools |
| Message | The universal education bill is, of course, primary. Note that I said government-run schools. I was acting under the assumption of compulsory education - which is something I whole-heartedly support. |
| Date | not recorded | From | People's Party | To | Debating the Prayer in Schools |
| Message | I oppose both this and the universal education bill. This bill is bad because it is in an intrusion of privacy. If someone is taught something that doesn't anyone else any harm, why should we regulate it? Why should we force everyone to go to the same secular school? |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Prayer in Schools |
| Message | I see no harm in allowing teacher-led prayers as long as nobody is forced into religion against their will. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Prayer in Schools |
| Message | Teacher led prayers would be forced religion though wouldn't they? And if anyone can opt out how many kids would bother anyway? It might just as well be an afterschool prayer club then. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the Prayer in Schools |
| Message | They shouldn't be illegal, but parents should have a choice of schools for their kids to attend, so they can send them to a religious one if they want. (personally my seven prayers a day in infancy did nothing to influence me: i'm still an atheist!) |
| Date | not recorded | From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the Prayer in Schools |
| Message | Kids are vulnerable to any suggestion made by adults they trust. Hence, teacher-led prayers can be forced religion. If an atheist or religious but un-mainstream parent is finding that his/her child comes home speaking a different religion's prayers, that would be unsettling to say the least. Government schools should be secular, so as to prevent that. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 9 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 39 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 7 |
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