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Bill: Secularisation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Internationalist Socialist 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: August 2455
Description[?]:
| Reducing religious propaganda. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: The government determines which missionaries are permitted to visit on a person by person basis.
Current: Foreign missionaries are not permitted to enter the nation.
Proposed: Foreign missionaries are not permitted to enter the nation.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards evangelism and religious advertising.
Old value:: Religions are permitted to freely promote and advertise themselves.
Current: Religions are permitted to freely promote and advertise themselves.
Proposed: Religions are not permitted to promote themselves or advertise in any manner whatsoever.
Article 3
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 | 23:20:59, September 12, 2007 CET | From |  Totalitarian Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Secularisation Act |
| Message | We're all in favour of this, though we would rather it went a step further and put a stop to religious advertising AND evangelism. |
| Date | 23:23:58, September 12, 2007 CET | From | Delath Ra | To | Debating the Secularisation Act |
| Message | Unsurprisingly, the DR opposes. |
| Date | 09:14:11, September 13, 2007 CET | From | Green Union | To | Debating the Secularisation Act |
| Message | The GU opposes. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 80 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 251 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 169 |
| Random fact: Real-life religions should not be referenced in Particracy. Terra has its own religions, many of which mirror real-life ones. See: http://particracy.wikia.com/wiki/Illustrated_Catalogue_of_Religion |
| Random quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair |