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Bill: Payment of Priests Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Her Majesty's Loyal Trade Unionists
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: May 2597
Description[?]:
| Mr Speaker, Luthori has a long tradition of having an official state-sanctioned church, the Church of Luthori. Many of my members are devoted to it, and as a party we fully support it. However, the Church of Luthori has been around many centuries and has amassed a substantial amount of wealth and property along the way. We feel it is unfair for tax-payers to continue to be asked to pay the salaries of church priests. Arthur Smith (General Secretary of Her Majesty's Loyal Trade Unionists) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Remuneration of ministers of religion.
Old value:: The salaries and pensions of ministers of religion shall be borne by the state and regulated by the law.
Current: The salaries and pensions of ministers of religion shall be borne by the state and regulated by the law.
Proposed: The state does not intervene in the remuneration of ministers of religion.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:07:47, June 24, 2008 CET | From | Citizen's League | To | Debating the Payment of Priests Act |
| Message | This is a tradition that must be kept to insure the spirituality of our nation. |
| Date | 20:14:16, June 24, 2008 CET | From | Her Majesty's Loyal Trade Unionists | To | Debating the Payment of Priests Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, My members find it difficult to fathom why the Capitalists so forcibly opposed state welfare benefits for the poor and state pensions for the elderly, and yet are so determined to insist the tax-payer foots the salaries of priests who could and should be funded by the church. Arthur Smith (General Secretary of Her Majesty's Loyal Trade Unionists) |
| Date | 21:31:32, June 24, 2008 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Payment of Priests Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, I'm afraid the Honourable Member has clearly misunderstood certain fundamental facts about the Holy Luthori Empire. The Church IS the State. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 51 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 124 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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