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Bill: Removal of Religious Discrimination
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rationalist 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: December 2110
Description[?]:
| Next to parents, teachers are the most influencial people in a young child's life. Thus, they should not have free reign to encourage any particular religious view within our schools. |
Proposals
Article 1
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, except in religious schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:40:48, September 12, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Party of Telamon | To | Debating the Removal of Religious Discrimination |
| Message | No.... It is the schools decision and as well as the neighbourhoods decision if they want religion in their public schools. You may say it discriminates against other religions, but how do we know that the classroom isn't all of one religion. Or the whole school even? This would not stop discrimation at all, and is just a way of giving religion absolutely no say at all. I know we agree with the seperation of Church and State and all...but you are just throwing it away. |
| Date | 00:06:57, September 13, 2005 CET | From | Rationalist Party | To | Debating the Removal of Religious Discrimination |
| Message | "You may say it discriminates against other religions, but how do we know that the classroom isn't all of one religion. Or the whole school even?" The opposite could also be true, it could be made up of several religions, or almost all one religion and a handfull who don't agree, I have no problem with prayer in school, it's the teacher lead that's wrong |
| Date | 19:31:04, September 14, 2005 CET | From | Humanarchist Party | To | Debating the Removal of Religious Discrimination |
| Message | I see both points, but to forbid prayer is to forbid ALL prayers, even nondenominational or general appeals to a generic higher power for help in focusing, as in meditating. And yet, teachers are in a position of authority and may abuse that for their own religious agenda. The best way to regulate that is at the local level. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 178 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 77 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Party organizations are eligible for deletion if they are over 50 in-game years old, do not have at least 1 active member or are historically significant and possess historically significant information. |
| Random quote: "The Religious Right dislikes both abortions and homosexuality. But who has fewer abortions than gays?" - George Carlin |