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Bill: Civil Rights Act of 2437
Details
Submitted by[?]: Chattes en Chaleur
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: December 2438
Description[?]:
| This bill recognizes and promotes the idea that all citizens are born with the natural right of freedom of religion. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: Foreign missionaries are not permitted to enter the nation.
Current: Foreign missionaries are not permitted to enter the nation.
Proposed: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards evangelism and religious advertising.
Old value:: Religions are not permitted to promote themselves or advertise in any manner whatsoever.
Current: Religions are not permitted to promote themselves or advertise in any manner whatsoever.
Proposed: Religions are permitted to freely promote and advertise themselves.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The state's policy concerning religious clothing.
Old value:: Wearing religious clothing or religious symbols in public is illegal.
Current: It is not permitted to wear religious clothing or religious symbols in public buildings.
Proposed: Public officials are not allowed to wear religious symbols while exercising their duties.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Religious schools are allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
Current: Religious schools are not allowed.
Proposed: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning religions.
Old value:: Any form of religion is banned.
Current: There is no official state religion, but the government only allows recognized religions. 'Cults' are persecuted.
Proposed: There is no government policy concerning a state religion.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:09:58, August 02, 2007 CET | From |  帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Civil Rights Act of 2437 |
| Message | The DSP has some concerns with this legislation. We think that article 1 should be reworded to insure that Sekowo remain a secular nation, as it could be interpreted to mean that Sekowo could or could not have a state relgion. We agree with the basic premise of article 2 but think that students, while in school should not be allowed to wear obtrusive religious paraphanilia, like gaudily large crosses, hajibs, or clothing that states a religious cause. Apart from that we also feel that the wearing of niqab's (the full body 'tent' popular in conservative Islam) should not be allowed in public for safety reasons, both for the individuals and the publics. We accept article 3, though we don't particulalry like doing so, but our regard to freedom trumps our distaste in this case, however we think it should be reworded to 'religious missionaries' instead of 'foreign missionaries'. We disagree with article 4's pervasive allowance, while we do agree that a religion, if it is willing to pay an advertiser to advertise it should be allowed to, we believe that it should be regulated so that it can not be promoted in or near schools or during times in the media in which young influenceable children are watching. |
| Date | 00:11:19, August 02, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Civil Rights Act of 2437 |
| Message | An edit to the previous, we said niqab when we meant burqa in regards to the full body dress, but we do mean the banning for both of these articles of clothing in public. |
| Date | 00:50:16, August 03, 2007 CET | From | Sekowan Communist Party | To | Debating the Civil Rights Act of 2437 |
| Message | The SCP opposes this bill. That is all. |
| Date | 03:40:09, August 03, 2007 CET | From |  Chattes en Chaleur | To | Debating the Civil Rights Act of 2437 |
| Message | CeC has reviewed the objections raised about this bill, but we are not about to author a bill that falls short of providing the basic human right of freedom of belief and the freedom to practice their beliefs. We strongly urge a yes vote. A country as progressive and outstanding in every other facet of life as ours should not have an antiquated stance on religious freedom. |
| Date | 03:44:32, August 03, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Civil Rights Act of 2437 |
| Message | The DSP can not vote for this bill as is. |
| Date | 17:57:13, August 03, 2007 CET | From | Sekowan Communist Party | To | Debating the Civil Rights Act of 2437 |
| Message | Antiquated? In the SCP's opinion, we are MORE progressive by banning ALL sorts of religion. If we had banned all but ONE, we would agree with you. |
| Date | 07:26:47, August 04, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Civil Rights Act of 2437 |
| Message | The DSP does not view this bill, as it is as being Progressive, it does have one things that the DSP believes in, that ebing freedom of religion, but to much of the bill is in opposition to the beliefs of the DSP to vote for it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 17 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 104 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 4 |
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