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Bill: Education (Religious Schools) Amendment Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union 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: October 2653
Description[?]:
| An act to remove additional requirements from religious schools. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Current: Only recognised religions may set up religious schools, with no regulations.
Proposed: Any religion may set up a school, with no regulations.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:20:15, October 16, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Education (Religious Schools) Amendment Act |
| Message | To give additional regulations to religious schools goes against freedom of religion. |
| Date | 23:18:54, October 16, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Education (Religious Schools) Amendment Act |
| Message | We oppose religious nutcases brainwashing our yout |
| Date | 00:20:06, October 17, 2008 CET | From | Witchdoctor's Leftist Doctrine | To | Debating the Education (Religious Schools) Amendment Act |
| Message | I believe while it should be legal for them to have their schools it should be regulated so we know they are not breeding religious fanatics on our soil. Although it's also a restriction of their religious freedoms, it prevents any acts of terrorism arising from said fanaticism, or being known as an exporter of fanaticism. I know fanaticism may sound harsh, but if any age group is going to take religion to a dangerous level of devotion, it's the teenage demographic. That being said, religion can help to instill important life values in our youth that they may otherwise be lacking due to an unhealthy home life or similar such circumstances. We as a government should be setting the happy medium, albeit with flexibilities, that religious schools are to follow. This will act as a preventative measure to the aforementioned risks, and to keep the schools from becoming financially corrupt (calling themselves a religious school, whilst they only do so to turn a profit from a quasi-privatized education system). Thank You, The WLD. |
| Date | 00:37:06, October 17, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Education (Religious Schools) Amendment Act |
| Message | Religions are dangerous, but we cannot restrict them. Non-religious movements can equally breed fanatics. A communist school (or capitalist school, we have no bias) could likewise produce students who are willing to commit terrorist acts for their cause. The mere fact that they are religious schools shouldn't single them out. |
| Date | 02:03:41, October 18, 2008 CET | From | Witchdoctor's Leftist Doctrine | To | Debating the Education (Religious Schools) Amendment Act |
| Message | Last time I checked, non-religious schools have an anti-politics policy, preventing educators of swaying students' opinions in any way, and allowing them to develop their own views and opinions regarding politics. I would go as far as saying Religion and Politics have no place in the education system, but that would be an infringement on their freedoms as people, and not my place to do so. |
| Date | 04:41:14, October 18, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Education (Religious Schools) Amendment Act |
| Message | Religious schools are equally as bound as non-religious schools to certain standards of conduct. The point here is that they do not need additional regulation on top of that given to ordinary schools. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 255 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 245 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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