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Bill: FDP 004: Religious Freedom
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Democratic Party
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 2514
Description[?]:
| In order to promote religious freedom in Sekowo, we propose the following: To allow Foreign Missionaries into the country, if they do not break any Sekowan laws, they are not a problem. To allow anyone to express their faith through what they wear, to do otherwise strikes of tyranny. To allow religious schools to compete with the state education system. To allow schools to choose whether to have prayers in their schools. |
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 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: Any religion may set up a school, with no regulations.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Current: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Proposed: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:36:52, January 07, 2008 CET | From | Communist Party of Sekowo | To | Debating the FDP 004: Religious Freedom |
| Message | Only support article 2. |
| Date | 23:08:06, January 07, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the FDP 004: Religious Freedom |
| Message | We shall never support this. The current ballance was carefully decided upon by both the religious parties and the USMC durring the civil war. |
| Date | 00:29:35, January 08, 2008 CET | From | Sekowan Communist Party | To | Debating the FDP 004: Religious Freedom |
| Message | This would simply pave the way for the First Sekowan Theocracy, an unacceptable state of affairs. |
| Date | 07:33:48, January 08, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the FDP 004: Religious Freedom |
| Message | No. |
| Date | 09:38:55, January 08, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the FDP 004: Religious Freedom |
| Message | We oppose very little of this. |
| Date | 22:45:28, January 09, 2008 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the FDP 004: Religious Freedom |
| Message | Seeing as it does not enforce a state religion, does not discriminate against religion or atheists, and only allows free religion, while separating Church and State, this would in no way pave the way for a Theocracy, in fact, this is a pro-freedom bill that is in the interests of all religious, non-religious and secular minded people. |
| Date | 23:07:42, January 09, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the FDP 004: Religious Freedom |
| Message | You are destroying the freedom from. |
| Date | 02:48:55, January 10, 2008 CET | From | Pan-Sekowo Freedom Alliance | To | Debating the FDP 004: Religious Freedom |
| Message | We oppose this simply because of the last two bills. We would support the other two |
| Date | 06:40:30, January 10, 2008 CET | From | Communist Party of Sekowo | To | Debating the FDP 004: Religious Freedom |
| Message | We would support Article 2 in a separate bill. |
| Date | 19:47:46, January 10, 2008 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the FDP 004: Religious Freedom |
| Message | "You are destroying the freedom from." Hardly, not all schools will be religious and parents can choose to send their children to secular schools, which will be plentiful. |
| Date | 21:03:16, January 10, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the FDP 004: Religious Freedom |
| Message | I was not refering to schools. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 302 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 448 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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