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Bill: 'No Prayer in School' Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Equality Party Of Trigunia
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: December 2099
Description[?]:
Religion, not excluding prayer, should have no place in a scholastic learning enviroment. It should be left to private households, churches, and any other Religious oriented instituition. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Current: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 04:10:05, August 21, 2005 CET | From | Capitalist Party | To | Debating the 'No Prayer in School' Act |
Message | Against. We should allow schools to decide. If a school wishes to conduct a prayer, they may, children to not have to participate however. |
Date | 04:53:00, August 21, 2005 CET | From | People's Equality Party Of Trigunia | To | Debating the 'No Prayer in School' Act |
Message | This will cause a magnet effect on certain schools. Religious people will flock to one school in the region that gives prayer in school, secular people will flock to the school without it. It's quite unfair because what if there isn't a school for either or nearby? More over, what if there isn't a school which prays for a particular religion? I rather have all schools eqaul, and forbid it all together. |
Date | 04:54:10, August 21, 2005 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the 'No Prayer in School' Act |
Message | Against. The reason for desiring no prayers in public schools is that the effect is to give the religion the appearance of state-support. If a private school wishes to have prayers, it is its own business and there would be major free speech issues in trying to prevent it. Since we have no public schools, we have no school prayer problem. The Liberty Party votes no |
Date | 09:27:22, August 21, 2005 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the 'No Prayer in School' Act |
Message | We agree with the Liberty and Capatalist Parties, it should be be up to the schools to decide, as so to provide choice to parents and students. |
Date | 19:34:59, August 21, 2005 CET | From | Radical Conservative Party | To | Debating the 'No Prayer in School' Act |
Message | I'm against. I don't think that the state should decide on this type of issue. |
Date | 18:48:46, August 22, 2005 CET | From | Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Partiya | To | Debating the 'No Prayer in School' Act |
Message | We disagree with The Liberty Party's statement. No prayers in schools is a act of the Separation of Church and State. It shows that religion has no place in government. |
Date | 19:25:25, August 22, 2005 CET | From | Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Partiya | To | Debating the 'No Prayer in School' Act |
Message | Check this bill: http://82.238.75.178:8085/particracy/main/viewbill.php?billid=15216 |
Date | 19:49:52, August 22, 2005 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the 'No Prayer in School' Act |
Message | What are you talking about? WE HAVE ALL PRIVATE SCHOOLS. WE HAVE NO STATE SCHOOLS. SCHOOLS ARE NOT PART OF THE STATE. There is only a separation of church and state issue if the schools are part of the state. Since all our schools are part of the private sector, they can do what they like. I'm not sure how this can be explained more simply. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes | Total Seats: 34 | |||||
no |
Total Seats: 519 | |||||
abstain | Total Seats: 2 |
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