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Bill: Aesthetic Bill 2540 "Recognizing The Special Nature Of Belief"
Details
Submitted by[?]: "Le Chaim" - Aesthetic 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: June 2541
Description[?]:
| "This was a thoughtless attack on freedom of belief, on freedom of man, on human being itself. Belief has a special place in a man's life. A belief, as the corpus of opinions concerning the world, the man's place in the world, moral values, metaphysical explanation, and many more, a belief comes before all other determinations and actions. Belief gives sense to science, culture, everyday life. Belief allows to estimate and rate all aspects of life. Belief is the pair of glasses that enables all the aspects of human life. And do not forget that atheism and agnosticism are forms of belief too, as they are stances on the world, on human being and a man's place in the world. So if you ban every form of religion you in fact establish the strongest compulsive state religion of all, namely a dumb and blinded atheism. You force your belief on the people, and that is nothing better than some medieval theocracy and inquisition..." Dionysos Rubenitz in 2533 "In addition: A belief, from atheism to catholicism and beyond, has influence on life, even more a belief has to visibly influence a man's life. A belief that doesn't manifest is no belief. Also your blinded atheism has to manifest to be true atheism. [...] We want freedom of decision for our people, we want personal responsibility. It is false and degrading to think the people have to be patronized. You call yourself a people's party. Proove you are. We belief that the people of Hutori are grown-up and mature enough to decide for themselves." Zephir Mendelsohn, chief ideologist |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: Foreign missionaries are not permitted to enter the nation.
Current: The government requires foreign missionaries to register with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Proposed: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards evangelism and religious advertising.
Old value:: Religions are not permitted to promote themselves or advertise in any manner whatsoever.
Current: Religions are not permitted to promote themselves or advertise in any manner whatsoever.
Proposed: Religions are permitted to freely promote and advertise themselves.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The state's policy concerning religious clothing.
Old value:: Wearing religious clothing or religious symbols in public is illegal.
Current: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Proposed: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Religious schools are not allowed.
Current: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Proposed: Religious schools are allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Current: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning religions.
Old value:: Any form of religion is banned.
Current: There is an official state religion, but membership is completely voluntary.
Proposed: There is no government policy concerning a state religion.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:30:05, March 02, 2008 CET | From | Groene ArbeidersPartij | To | Debating the Aesthetic Bill 2540 "Recognizing The Special Nature Of Belief" |
| Message | Yeah dude. You can't just stop believing. The current values are way to extreme man! We need to think about our children! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 79 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 104 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 118 |
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