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Bill: Realising Religious Freedom Bill 2478
Details
Submitted by[?]: Guds og Konges Kjemprene
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 2479
Description[?]:
| Art. 1: With the current system, we don't get less fundamentalists, they simply just don't register and work undercover. If we changed the law as proposed in this bill, they will be able to work openly, and thus allow us to survey how the people react to their preaches. Art. 2: If we want to be a truly secular state, then we should keep entirely out of telling people what to do, concerning religious clothing. If a public official does want to wear a religious symbol we should neither enforce nor deny that to him. The way it currently is, we are oppressing religion. Art. 3: This goes along the same lines as Art. 2, and is just a logical conclusion, as we do allow religious schools anyway. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: The government requires foreign missionaries to register with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Current: Foreign missionaries are not permitted to enter the nation.
Proposed: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The state's policy concerning religious clothing.
Old value:: Public officials are not allowed to wear religious symbols while exercising their duties.
Current: It is not permitted to wear religious clothing or religious symbols in public buildings.
Proposed: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Current: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:28:04, October 31, 2007 CET | From | Pertetuum Kazulia | To | Debating the Realising Religious Freedom Bill 2478 |
| Message | On Art 1, are you proposing we should simply allow fundamentalists to practice their brainwashery, simply because they will otherwise do it illegally? That is not a reason, dear chap, or, for consistency, you should also legalize murder. |
| Date | 19:58:00, October 31, 2007 CET | From | Science and Environment Party | To | Debating the Realising Religious Freedom Bill 2478 |
| Message | We see no point in changing article one. If they have clear and honest purposes the missionaries should not have any problem registering. Disagree with article 2 when they are public officials they are not representing a religion but the society. We are against religous schools! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 280 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 296 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 174 |
| Random fact: Selucia is Particracy's modern take on Ancient Rome, located on the continent of Majatra. |
| Random quote: "I'll see you in the Palace in Kivonia once we win this war... and I'm ecstatic to be the one to execute you. Sleep well." - Queen Annalise, former Telamonese monarch |