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Bill: Anti-Imaginary Friends Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pacis quod Sane
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 2488
Description[?]:
| The Capitalist Atheist Progressive Party proposes that we ban all forms of religion on the great nation of Pontesia. Religion does more harm than good, and a nation that is rid of religion will be completely secular. There will be no God, Allah, or Zeus. There will be only the undeterred, non-distracted progression of our peoples to the glory they, and we, deserve. As Tom Wolfe once said, "A cult is a religion with no political power." |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: Foreign missionaries are welcomed and encouraged by the government.
Current: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Proposed: Foreign missionaries are not permitted to enter the nation.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Current: Religious schools are not allowed.
Proposed: Religious schools are not allowed.
Article 3
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.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning religions.
Old value:: There is an official state religion, but membership is completely voluntary.
Current: There is no official state religion, but the government only allows recognized religions. 'Cults' are persecuted.
Proposed: Any form of religion is banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:20:32, November 18, 2007 CET | From | Wessex High Imperial Party | To | Debating the Anti-Imaginary Friends Bill |
| Message | The UUP cannot support this bill. Although we are not bound by religious priniciple, we cannot in good conscience agree to enforce our beliefs on others and we wholly support the notion that faith and belief are free and up to individuals to decide. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Head of the UUP |
| Date | 16:38:10, November 18, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Workers Party | To | Debating the Anti-Imaginary Friends Bill |
| Message | We're in agreement with the UUP - people are should be allowed their beliefs, no matter how odd they beliefs are. |
| Date | 16:51:44, November 18, 2007 CET | From | Puritanical Party | To | Debating the Anti-Imaginary Friends Bill |
| Message | In light of the fact that this bill seeks to rescind and destroy everything we believe in, we shall withstand all articles of this bill. |
| Date | 12:46:19, November 19, 2007 CET | From | One Nation Conservative Party | To | Debating the Anti-Imaginary Friends Bill |
| Message | This is a disgusting and despicable attempt to undermine the beliefs of Pontesi. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 625 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say 'No' to war, for one does not create human society on mounds of corpses." - Louis Lecoin |