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Bill: New Religion in Schools
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Lodamun
Status[?]: passed
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 2418
Description[?]:
| This would allow local governments to determine if prayer was allowed inside public schools. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Current: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Proposed: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:27:37, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Free Lodamun | To | Debating the New Religion in Schools |
| Message | This is a compromise to the NP's bill. Once again, this is an elegant solution that will regulate itself. If we leave the decision to each school's board, they are the ones that have to cater to their constituants instead of the national government using a huge catch-all solution. |
| Date | 04:21:02, June 23, 2007 CET | From | The Unified Lodamun Party | To | Debating the New Religion in Schools |
| Message | That's an interesting thought. I think this might just be a very good idea. It will provide a very interesting sociological experiment that we can do throughout our country. |
| Date | 05:04:19, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Free Lodamun | To | Debating the New Religion in Schools |
| Message | Despite your seeming support, we do not run experiements on the populace. At least Free Lodamun doesn't. |
| Date | 10:51:19, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Communist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the New Religion in Schools |
| Message | No. We do not support devolution. |
| Date | 11:59:32, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Radical Nationalist Party | To | Debating the New Religion in Schools |
| Message | Technically my bill only encourages them, they do not force them to happen. |
| Date | 12:10:36, June 23, 2007 CET | From | United Republics Party | To | Debating the New Religion in Schools |
| Message | Separation of church and state is central to the URP. |
| Date | 18:40:46, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Free Lodamun | To | Debating the New Religion in Schools |
| Message | So I assume the children of urp live in an area that would retain no prayer in school. This will only be relevent in small very religious communities. The school boards need to pass it and in our experience, they are very paranoid about things like this. The status quo will remain, by and large. |
| Date | 22:34:05, June 23, 2007 CET | From | The Unified Lodamun Party | To | Debating the New Religion in Schools |
| Message | Sociology is rarely experiements. Generally its' the gathering of data, and comparing it side by side with other comparable data, with similar variables. Such as, which schools and communities will do better grade wise, the ones who allow prayer, or the ones that do not? Its' not an experiment, just an observation. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 382 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 167 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 50 |
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