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Bill: A Moral Nation
Details
Submitted by[?]: HaLeumit Tikvah
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: December 2440
Description[?]:
| Article 1: While we are not requiring employees to pledge loyalty to any party, we will require them to pledge allegiance to the State, The Naczelnik Nasi, and to Jewish values. While the employees will not be required to be jewish, it is obviously helpful. Article 2: We cannot have companies exporting weapons to anyone. What if they were supplying weapons to militias targeting our brothers around Terra? Article 3, 4, and 5: These current laws contrivene the Torah, and must be changed. Article 6: In order to protect the Homeland, people must feel pride in it. This will help ensure the security of the state. Article 7: We cannot have the Islamists and Republicans attempting to subvert our new state by spreading hate against the Jewish people. For their security, these measures must be enacted. Article 8: Only through a traditional family upbringing can children be raised normally. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: Abortion is allowed during the first trimester.
Current: Abortion is allowed during the entire course of the pregnancy.
Proposed: Abortions are only allowed in medical emergencies.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning who can proceed with adoption; in case adoption is legal.
Old value:: Everyone may adopt children.
Current: Everyone may adopt children.
Proposed: Only heterosexual couples may adopt children.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The right to euthanasia.
Old value:: Euthanasia is allowed with consent from the patient and the treating doctor.
Current: Euthanasia is allowed with consent from the patient and the treating doctor.
Proposed: Euthanasia is illegal and considered murder.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: Gambling is legal across the nation, no regulation whatsoever.
Current: Gambling is illegal unless taking place in a licensed casino.
Proposed: Gambling is illegal.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Appointments and requirements for government employees.
Old value:: All government employees have to promise political independence.
Current: All government employees have to promise political independence.
Proposed: Government employees are selected and appointed in a political way.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Current: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Proposed: There are laws against the publication of false information, hate speech, and subversive anti-government material.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Current: Children are only made to sing the national anthem on special occasions.
Proposed: Children are made to sing the national anthem at the commencement of school each day.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the export of weapons to other nations.
Old value:: The government allows conventional arms to be exported freely.
Current: The government allows conventional arms to be exported freely.
Proposed: The government must approve all arms sales on a case by case basis.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:28:09, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Moderate Voice of Reason Party | To | Debating the A Moral Nation |
| Message | The limits on free speech are too stringent for us to vote yes for this bill. |
| Date | 21:31:28, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Ha'ganat Ha'aretz | To | Debating the A Moral Nation |
| Message | The arms review will bog down government and entangle a market in beauracratic doldrums. Furthermore, it will encourage the subversive sale of arms. Also, the compulsory national anthem singing and limitations on publishing rights are much too conservative and hyper-nationalistic. |
| Date | 21:33:02, August 06, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the A Moral Nation |
| Message | This nation has endured ethnic violence for too long. It was encouraged during the Theocracy, and ignored during the Republic. We will ignore it no longer. If limiting what the would-be despots can say to stir up their supporters requires us to limit free speech, then so be it. |
| Date | 21:36:48, August 06, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the A Moral Nation |
| Message | So the Ha'ganat Ha'aretz would rather we allow sales to groups who would target the homeland or Jewish minorities abroad. Nationalism has its place in creating pride in the Homeland. When this has faltered in the past it has seen us subjegated and opressed. |
| Date | 21:40:42, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Moderate Voice of Reason Party | To | Debating the A Moral Nation |
| Message | The Moderate Voice of Reason party feels that this is a fairly wide sweeping bill that seems to illicit controversy amongst vocal groups in all parties. Perhaps it would be better if portions of this bill had been introduced after the upcoming election? |
| Date | 21:40:48, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Ha'ganat Ha'aretz | To | Debating the A Moral Nation |
| Message | And who are we to suddenly engender more opression and hatred going the other way? Certainly nationalism has its role in civic pride and state virtue, but must we fuel resentment at the expense of stregnthening our state. To covet a hyper-nationalistic state with an ethnic foundation is calling the fires of anti-semitism down upon our heads. |
| Date | 21:42:26, August 06, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the A Moral Nation |
| Message | Perhaps,yes, but as this bill will not be passed until after that election it isnt important. |
| Date | 21:46:43, August 06, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the A Moral Nation |
| Message | So we should never openly display our faith? We should give up our right to a Homeland because some anti-semites can't take it? Maybe one day we will be able to have a Homeland that doesn't require restrictions on free speech. But right now, we have to protect our right to a Homeland, even if that means sacrificing some of our rights to liberty. |
| Date | 22:06:05, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Moderate Voice of Reason Party | To | Debating the A Moral Nation |
| Message | We here at The Moderate Voice of Reason Party view security as a means to an end. Security is here to be a bulwark ,providing us the appropriate protection to exercise our liberties. |
| Date | 23:06:09, August 06, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the A Moral Nation |
| Message | We value more than liberty. To us, our faith and our Homeland are just as important as Liberty. And if we do not deny some liberty, we will lose all three. |
| Date | 01:52:32, August 07, 2007 CET | From | Robotic Anarcho Syndicalistic Party | To | Debating the A Moral Nation |
| Message | Why must Jewish values be held above the values programmed into all Industrial Droids by the Manufacturer? Robots do not practice this faith; why must we be excluded? |
| Date | 01:55:46, August 07, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the A Moral Nation |
| Message | Robots have no souls; they are not members of the state; they are lower then the animals, in fact. For that reason, they have no rights and their "views" are irrelevent. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 55 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 6 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 14 |
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