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Bill: Gesetz zur Gewährleistung der Neutralität des öffentlichen Dienstes
Details
Submitted by[?]: Nationalliberale Partei
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: September 2613
Description[?]:
| We feel it is inappropriate for public servants to wear religious symbols. |
Proposals
Article 1
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:57:59, July 28, 2008 CET | From | Militärregierung - Alte Kämpfergruppe | To | Debating the Gesetz zur Gewährleistung der Neutralität des öffentlichen Dienstes |
| Message | Why? Freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion. This seems unnecessary. |
| Date | 20:18:07, July 28, 2008 CET | From | Militärregierung - Alte Kämpfergruppe | To | Debating the Gesetz zur Gewährleistung der Neutralität des öffentlichen Dienstes |
| Message | Also, if these public officals are appointed in a political way as the legislation you sponsored and you passed states, as they currently are, why don't you just tell your appointees that they must not wear religious symbols. That would seem easier than passing a law for the whole nation. As you "win" elections (in your words), afterall, that is what you "like" to do (your words again) you simply fire everyone else and hire who you want. Hire a bunch of atheists, or agnostics or something; we mean, afterall, is qualifications really necessary? That fictional Andrew Jackson guy didn't think so. |
| Date | 21:36:57, July 28, 2008 CET | From | Nationalliberale Partei | To | Debating the Gesetz zur Gewährleistung der Neutralität des öffentlichen Dienstes |
| Message | We passed a bill to make it legal for our party (and other parties in agreement) to exclude communists from political appointment. We still believe in the neutrality of the executive. |
| Date | 21:51:13, July 28, 2008 CET | From | FreiStaatsPartei | To | Debating the Gesetz zur Gewährleistung der Neutralität des öffentlichen Dienstes |
| Message | This bill would be acceptable if the stipulation was that religious symbols cannot be -visible- during the exercise of their duties. |
| Date | 22:29:18, July 28, 2008 CET | From | Nationalliberale Partei | To | Debating the Gesetz zur Gewährleistung der Neutralität des öffentlichen Dienstes |
| Message | We could arrange for an exemption. What sort of symbols did the FSP have in mind? Religious tattoos? |
| Date | 00:09:03, July 29, 2008 CET | From | Militärregierung - Alte Kämpfergruppe | To | Debating the Gesetz zur Gewährleistung der Neutralität des öffentlichen Dienstes |
| Message | Or a cross on a necklace that is hidden? |
| Date | 01:30:31, July 29, 2008 CET | From | Nationalliberale Partei | To | Debating the Gesetz zur Gewährleistung der Neutralität des öffentlichen Dienstes |
| Message | We could propose this legislation again with a concealed carry clause. Would that generate more approval? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 207 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 293 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 100 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." - Josef Stalin |