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Bill: Religious Encouragement Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social 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: June 2563
Description[?]:
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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: The government selectively screens which religions are permitted to send missionaries to the nation. Certain religions are approved and travel is unregulated.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Current: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Proposed: No religions are taxed.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning religions.
Old value:: There is no government policy concerning a state religion.
Current: There is no official state religion, but the government only allows recognized religions. 'Cults' are persecuted.
Proposed: There is no official state religion, but the government requires everyone to belong to a religion of some kind.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:00:33, April 17, 2008 CET | From | Rightful Radical Party | To | Debating the Religious Encouragement Act |
| Message | The only reason we supported this bill is that because it: 1) Doesn't tax religion like the DCD and RP proposed. 2) It doesn't specify that it has to be Islam. We are for ortodoxianity. 3) It proposes to stop any satanistic religion Vojislav Krkljus Chairman of the RRP |
| Date | 04:12:33, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Ordo Malleus (COM) | To | Debating the Religious Encouragement Act |
| Message | We are in favor of article 2 but cannot support this bill because of the oppressive positioning of articles 1 and 3. -Thorden Raxney |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 118 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 383 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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