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Bill: School Prayer
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Republics 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: November 2440
Description[?]:
Bans prayer in public schools |
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.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 21:52:18, July 31, 2007 CET | From | National Moral Front | To | Debating the School Prayer |
Message | Removing prayer from our schools is a move to remove religion from our children, remove faith from our lives. We are opposed. |
Date | 00:03:10, August 01, 2007 CET | From | The Unified Lodamun Party | To | Debating the School Prayer |
Message | This is the way that the URP believes our society should run. The less rules, regulations, and morality the better, but when morality causes our people to get rid of regulation as the URP is so want to do, he falls completley to the side of fully regulated laws forbidding things he dosn't like. Its quite funny, the longer you are here the more his hypocrisy will shine through on these issues. |
Date | 08:14:59, August 01, 2007 CET | From | United Republics Party | To | Debating the School Prayer |
Message | The ULP is wrong. This bill does not limit freedom or liberty as I understand it. In the end some decision has to be made about what is and is not acceptable in a public classroom. The state has entrusted teachers with a great deal of power in cultivating the minds of young Lodamese. Teachers can continue to pray, but not while serving in their official capacity. The URP believes the right of the teacher to lead a prayer is far outweighed by the rights of the students not to have religious beliefs imposed on them by a state agent. Clearly religious schools should be an exception. As for the ULP's other comments, I point out that URP has perhaps the most consistent and clear ideology of any Lodamese political party. I can't tell you where the ULP will stand on any given issue; they have no ideology. |
Date | 05:59:38, August 03, 2007 CET | From | The Unified Lodamun Party | To | Debating the School Prayer |
Message | That is good political talk from the URP. Everyone knows exactly where the ULP stands on pretty much every issue. The URP is the one that flip flops depending on who proposes what, and what the polls say. |
Date | 21:02:48, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Free Lodamun | To | Debating the School Prayer |
Message | Why even take this choise away? better to leave well enough alone. |
Date | 21:03:27, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Free Lodamun | To | Debating the School Prayer |
Message | *Choice. spelling. |
Date | 23:31:15, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Independent Republican Party | To | Debating the School Prayer |
Message | Despite our secularist stance, we cannot support this bill. If a public school has a student base that predominantly consists of a certain religion, they should be able to choose whether or not to allow public prayer. |
Date | 07:53:19, August 07, 2007 CET | From | United Republics Party | To | Debating the School Prayer |
Message | this bill isn't about public prayer it's about TEACHER-LED PRAYER. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes | Total Seats: 173 | |||||
no |
Total Seats: 426 | |||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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