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Bill: Freedom Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: National 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: October 2459
Description[?]:
| What is wrong with a religious school? |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Religious schools are not allowed.
Current: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Proposed: Any religion may set up a school, with no regulations.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:34:57, September 22, 2007 CET | From | Inflatable Arm Flailing Tubeman Emporium | To | Debating the Freedom Bill |
| Message | Let religious peoples have the option to go to a religious school. It's not hurting any of us. |
| Date | 05:41:08, September 22, 2007 CET | From |  Social Liberal Party | To | Debating the Freedom Bill |
| Message | The SLP does not approve of religious schooling, but provided that the education provided at said schools meets certain benchmarks, then we support giving people the choice. |
| Date | 14:49:12, September 22, 2007 CET | From | Federalist Labour Party | To | Debating the Freedom Bill |
| Message | This all goes back to our freedom of speech debate. If you go around regulating what other people can and cannot say you may end un able to speak yourself. What if a party condoning fascism came to power? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 270 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 447 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Players have a responsibility to make a reasonable effort to be accurate when communicating the rules to other players. Any player who manipulatively misleads another player about the rules will be subject to sanction. |
| Random quote: "The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems, the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and religion." - John Maynard Keynes |