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Bill: Freedom FOR Religion & Freedom FROM Religion Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Capitalist Working Families
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: January 2448
Description[?]:
| This simply bill simply says that absolutely under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should religion be regulated except if the said religion is engaging in COMMERCE related activity. And YES, if the Branch Dividends (or the "Robots") want to set up school, it is NOT the Government's job to regulate them. Now, they are a "cult" but remember that Christianity was once considered a "cult" by the Pagan Roman Empire. The stigmatizations of religious minorities like the Mormons, Branch Dividends, "Robots," or even Atheists and Agonostics will only cause dissenstions and strife. If memebers of the Branch Dividends blow up a building like their founder--Timothy McVeigh--gov't should prosecute the INDIVIDUALS responsible and not the religion in the same way with the clerical sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. On the planet Earth, there is a nation called the "United States of America" where they enshrined in their Constitution that religion under ANY circumstances is to be NOT regulated and as a result they have the most PROSPEROUS nation second to NONE on that planet within the Terran Universe. I say let's emulate that model for this Commonwealth. Thank you for your support. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: No religions are taxed.
Current: No religions are taxed.
Proposed: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
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| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 279 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 360 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 52 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
| Random quote: "In public policy, it matters less who has the best arguments and more who gets heard, and by whom." - Ralph Reed |