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Bill: Bill to Increase Religious Freedom
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa)
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: June 2446
Description[?]:
| A bill to increase religious freedom by increasing the separation of church and state. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The state's policy concerning religious clothing.
Old value:: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Current: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Proposed: Public officials are not allowed to wear religious symbols while exercising their duties.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:26:06, August 22, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Bill to Increase Religious Freedom |
| Message | When public officials are performing their duties, they're acting as agents of the state. If they were religious symbols during the performance of those duties, it creates the impression that the state has endorsed their religion. This law doesn't prohibit state officials from wearing religious symbols when off duty. It doesn't bar them from going to church, mosque, or synagogue. It just says "keep your religion in your private life if you're a public official." |
| Date | 14:48:22, August 22, 2007 CET | From | Social Liberalism Party | To | Debating the Bill to Increase Religious Freedom |
| Message | I supported this last time it was brought up, my feelings are unchanged. |
| Date | 23:38:40, August 22, 2007 CET | From |  Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Bill to Increase Religious Freedom |
| Message | The title to this bill is deceptive. Nice try to oppress religious freedom, yet again, DR. |
| Date | 02:42:28, August 23, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Bill to Increase Religious Freedom |
| Message | Seeing the suppressing of freedom here makes most of our members sick to their stomachs. How can you dictate what someone wears? Can't you just let people live their lives like they want to? Why must you enforce a dress code like schools do to children? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 379 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 221 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Game mechanics comes first." For example, if a currently-enforced bill sets out one law, then a player cannot claim the government has set out a contradictory law. |
| Random quote: "The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall, and if you don't go there, they shoot you." - P. J. O'Rourke |