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Bill: Religious Freedom Bill (2497)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Normand Pluralist Party
Status[?]: passed
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: May 2498
Description[?]:
| This bill proposes to reduce restrictions on religious worship in Sekowo: Individuals have a right to worship as they choose. By reducing the onerousness of our missionary-screening practices, we free up government funds and resources which we can then allocate elsewhere. Erstwhile, the citizens of Sekowo will have more religious freedom. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: The government determines which missionaries are permitted to visit on a person by person basis.
Current: Foreign missionaries are not permitted to enter the nation.
Proposed: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:43:58, December 07, 2007 CET | From | Independence Coalition | To | Debating the Religious Freedom Bill (2497) |
| Message | Sounds good to us. |
| Date | 22:58:25, December 07, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Religious Freedom Bill (2497) |
| Message | No and no. We cannot allow extremists into our country under the guise of missionaries. Beyond that Sekowo is a secular country, and as public officials work for the government, they must remain secular while performing there tasks. Also, they are not permitted from wearing a small cross necklace or something like that, they are prevented from wearing say large Star of David necklaces, Islamic head scarfs or clothing stating one religions is better or th 'true religion'. |
| Date | 23:05:19, December 07, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the Religious Freedom Bill (2497) |
| Message | Goverment officals with any religious symbols strongly go not only against the majority of the legislature but being secular is currently the strongest majority opinion in Sekowo. While we could perhaps go for the first article, we shall never stand for the second. |
| Date | 05:08:46, December 08, 2007 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Religious Freedom Bill (2497) |
| Message | Very well, we shall remove the second article. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 474 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 218 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 58 |
| Random fact: Information about the population of each country can be found on the Population Information thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8663 |
| Random quote: "We make war that we may live in peace." - Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics |