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Bill: Religious Neutrality Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Authoritarian Movement
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: September 2463
Description[?]:
| Zardugal is a fully secularized state. Therefore we want our state officials to appear neutral towards every citizen in order to prevent injuring other peoples religious beliefs. |
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: Public officials are not allowed to wear religious symbols while exercising their duties.
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 | 16:43:27, September 29, 2007 CET | From | Stoic Party | To | Debating the Religious Neutrality Act |
| Message | Even thou this party is founded upon the ideas of free thinking atheism and we strongly support the seperation of church and state. I feel this would infringe upon the rights of the religious to wear articals of their faith. I see no need to do this, as long as they do no bring religious practice into government then let them wear what they want. |
| Date | 17:54:00, September 29, 2007 CET | From | National Authoritarian Movement | To | Debating the Religious Neutrality Act |
| Message | In some cases, the wearing of religious clothing is already a political statement. |
| Date | 18:17:07, September 29, 2007 CET | From | Stoic Party | To | Debating the Religious Neutrality Act |
| Message | Anything radical wouldn't be allowed by default. Parliment and other government buildings have a dress code for those in service (I think it would anyway there is no law for this that I can find). So really this would only prohibit the wearing of small jewlry that no one would notice anyway. - Zeno |
| Date | 18:34:41, September 29, 2007 CET | From | National Authoritarian Movement | To | Debating the Religious Neutrality Act |
| Message | Where you got these information from? Like I read the text provided by the game, this law affects any religious symbol from religious clothing to little jewelry. |
| Date | 18:39:05, September 29, 2007 CET | From | Stoic Party | To | Debating the Religious Neutrality Act |
| Message | The game doesn't provide that much detail, but it made sense to me that government buildings would have some dress code for the people enployed there, if it doesn't it should. |
| Date | 18:42:03, September 29, 2007 CET | From | National Authoritarian Movement | To | Debating the Religious Neutrality Act |
| Message | Well, you can see this bill as a dress code too. |
| Date | 18:55:28, September 29, 2007 CET | From | Stoic Party | To | Debating the Religious Neutrality Act |
| Message | I see the need to ban religious dress from government, but smaller things like necklaces, bracelets, rings and such should be allowed. As long as they don't show up in headdresses and robes or anything of the sort. |
| Date | 09:38:51, September 30, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Religious Neutrality Act |
| Message | "This bill represents the Authoritarian's inability to differ the idea of a secular state from an atheist state. The Liberty Party supports a secularism where no law would be made to infringe on any citizen's freedom of religion or to force a religion on any citizen. As public officials, due to the efforts of the major parties in Zardugal, now principally perform management duties and not real policy making, the Liberty Party sees this measure as an infringement of the right to free expression and carries undertones of forcing a religion -of sorts- athesim, onto public officials" ~Burnard French, Directory Member |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 75 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 326 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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