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Bill: Secular relations bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Republican Coalition
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: June 2537
Description[?]:
| Reducing evangelism and missionaries. If people wish to believe they can do so at their will, without the pestilence of door-to-door evangelism and foreign priests in the streets. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Current: The government requires foreign missionaries to register with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Proposed: Foreign missionaries are not permitted to enter the nation.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards evangelism and religious advertising.
Old value:: Religions are permitted to freely promote and advertise themselves.
Current: Religions are required to obtain government approval before promoting themselves or advertising in any manner.
Proposed: Religions are not permitted to promote themselves or advertise in any manner whatsoever.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:08:49, February 24, 2008 CET | From | People's Radical Party | To | Debating the Secular relations bill |
| Message | We are yet to be convinced that there is a plague of priests within our borders. |
| Date | 11:31:59, February 24, 2008 CET | From | Republican Coalition | To | Debating the Secular relations bill |
| Message | We are worried that there might be, especially considering our close relations to the Holy Lutharian Empire, who founded our nation. |
| Date | 13:25:28, February 24, 2008 CET | From | People's Radical Party | To | Debating the Secular relations bill |
| Message | Perhaps a slightly more restrictive policy than the current one, then, rather than an outright ban? |
| Date | 15:39:21, February 24, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary Socialist Front | To | Debating the Secular relations bill |
| Message | Even as seculars we support the right to worship. |
| Date | 18:03:55, February 24, 2008 CET | From | Republican Coalition | To | Debating the Secular relations bill |
| Message | We're not restricting that right, we're restricting evangelism. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 205 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 481 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 64 |
| Random fact: Cultural Protocols should generally be reflective of RP conducted within the nation and should not significantly alter or modify the ethnic, religious or linguistic composition without considerable and reasonable role-play or other justification. |
| Random quote: "Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is." - William E. Barrett |