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Bill: PLP: Secular act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Liberal Party of Hulstria
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: February 2569
Description[?]:
| Divide the church and state. Why should we accept that cooperations, operating so called religions, make mass profits and not be taxed. This calls for fraud and should be stop! We do not want to divide our nations between believers and non believers, everyone is free to believe what ever he/she want to, but its private and should not be brought to public cases. Let us not divide our children, this we will regret in the future. Let us send our children to one kind of school, giving them the same education and allowing them to integrate with each other instead of having multiple conclaves in our community. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: Recognized religions are not taxed.
Current: Religious taxation policy is left to the local governments.
Proposed: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The state's policy concerning religious clothing.
Old value:: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Current: Wearing religious clothing or religious symbols in public is illegal.
Proposed: Public officials are not allowed to wear religious symbols while exercising their duties.
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 allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
Proposed: Religious schools are not allowed.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Remuneration of ministers of religion.
Old value:: The state does not intervene in the remuneration of ministers of religion.
Current: The state does not intervene in the remuneration of ministers of religion.
Proposed: Ministers of religion shall receive no remuneration whatsoever.
Article 5
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, except in religious schools.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:04:17, April 29, 2008 CET | From |  Wiedervereinigten Nationalisten | To | Debating the PLP: Secular act |
| Message | This not only will lead to the moral degeneration of our society, but it is also contrary to the notions of liberty which the PLPH claim to espouse. Whatever happened to the freedom of worship in the doctrines of liberalism? |
| Date | 08:39:57, April 29, 2008 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party of Hulstria | To | Debating the PLP: Secular act |
| Message | That is still there, but is had not to be mandatory, nor should it split our society in two. Religion is something for home, not for in public. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 27 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 473 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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