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Bill: Social Reform Bill 68: Relgious Freedom Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kristen Socialdemokratisk Partiet
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: January 2684
Description[?]:
| This is the 68th bill in the Social Reform series. We don't care whether our party is Christian right now. We don't care what religion any party is right now. But religions and people deserve their rights. Why do people need to register religion and race? So we can persecute them. That is silly and useless. In Kazulia, we persecute no one. We must keep our honor up. We are kind people. Relgions should have the freedom to set up schools and worship there, just as parents and children have a freedom to choose whether to go to a religious school or a public school or a private school or be homeschooled. This is just part of one thing we like to call democracy. And anyone--And I mean ANYONE--who doesn't support democracy is crazy. So please, I would hope that you allow people to have freedom of religion in this great country, instead of denying them the right. This bill includes proposals to change: The government policy with respect to prayer in schools Racial and religious registration of nationals The governments stance on religious schools Thank you for your support. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Racial and religious registration of nationals.
Old value:: All nationals are required to register their race and religion.
Current: The government does not require nationals to register their race or religion.
Proposed: The government does not require nationals to register their race or religion.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Religious schools are not allowed.
Current: Religious schools are allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
Proposed: Any religion may set up a school, with no regulations.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Current: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:48:25, December 20, 2008 CET | From | H+ Paradigm | To | Debating the Social Reform Bill 68: Relgious Freedom Act |
| Message | Religion is for fools. |
| Date | 02:52:05, December 20, 2008 CET | From | Kristen Socialdemokratisk Partiet | To | Debating the Social Reform Bill 68: Relgious Freedom Act |
| Message | Well, if they want to be fools in your eyes they can. Some people believe religion is not for fools. Some do. The right to believe what you want is fundamental in a country, though. Religion is a giant part of Kazulian in culture. Scholastika Cayly, one of the founders of the KSDP, grew up during an era when religion was banned. People lived in terror-cut away from a big part of them. The skies remained dark all the time. We cannot let that happen again. People need their rights--to see the blue, open skies of democracy. |
| Date | 02:53:29, December 20, 2008 CET | From | Kristen Socialdemokratisk Partiet | To | Debating the Social Reform Bill 68: Relgious Freedom Act |
| Message | Name: Religious Freedom Act Mistake: Relgious [forgot 'i' after 'g' in religious.] |
| Date | 03:00:26, December 20, 2008 CET | From | H+ Paradigm | To | Debating the Social Reform Bill 68: Relgious Freedom Act |
| Message | The people of Kazulia need to grow up and realize that their omnipotent, all-powerful imaginary friend isn't really going to do them any good. Mostly, because imaginary friends are imaginary. Kazulian culture can be changed. There are no fundamental, natural rights. A nation is not required to recognize the "right" to believe in (and teach others) absolute nonsense. |
| Date | 03:09:20, December 20, 2008 CET | From | Kristen Socialdemokratisk Partiet | To | Debating the Social Reform Bill 68: Relgious Freedom Act |
| Message | The opinion is that you believe their "omnipotent, all-powerful friend" is imaginary. The fact is that many people believe this friend is real comes to show that the people of Kazulia want religious freedom. And they elected the majority of the Storinget members to their seats because they hope that these people will give them religious freedom. |
| Date | 03:20:39, December 20, 2008 CET | From | H+ Paradigm | To | Debating the Social Reform Bill 68: Relgious Freedom Act |
| Message | Many H+ Paradigm voters may believe in Unicorns. Does that mean the govt. should enact laws allowing people to teach children that Unicorns are real? Or to attempt to telepathically contact the Unicorns during school time? How about letting people create a series of Unicorn Academies across Kazulia? |
| Date | 03:43:27, December 20, 2008 CET | From | Guds og Konges Kjemprene | To | Debating the Social Reform Bill 68: Relgious Freedom Act |
| Message | It is interesting to see that the H+ Paradigm apparently needs to show us that most of their voters believe in Unicorns. This is either a gigantic insult for its voters, or some kind of sad confession. However, if there is indeed a majority of people wishing for Unicorn Academies - why not? |
| Date | 03:48:47, December 20, 2008 CET | From | H+ Paradigm | To | Debating the Social Reform Bill 68: Relgious Freedom Act |
| Message | No, we do not believe most of our voters believe in Unicorns. But if they did... The "why not" is that Unicorns don't exist. |
| Date | 13:29:55, December 20, 2008 CET | From | United Føderale League (NUC-DMF) | To | Debating the Social Reform Bill 68: Relgious Freedom Act |
| Message | I'm sorry but how are religious schools a sign of religious freedom? Just as Atheistic schools are indoctrination of youth, so are religious ones. The only way to have religious freedom is to have a complete seperation of church, education and state, you are threatening this and it cannot go unopposed. |
| Date | 14:46:30, December 20, 2008 CET | From | Thorgerd Security Squad | To | Debating the Social Reform Bill 68: Relgious Freedom Act |
| Message | Let's make the NUC the absolute power, the omnipotent, all-powerful face, although not imaginary at all. |
| Date | 19:46:35, December 20, 2008 CET | From | H+ Paradigm | To | Debating the Social Reform Bill 68: Relgious Freedom Act |
| Message | If you want to. :) |
| Date | 23:57:15, December 20, 2008 CET | From | H+ Paradigm | To | Debating the Social Reform Bill 68: Relgious Freedom Act |
| Message | OOC: George, switch your party name to the World Church of the Sacred Unicorn. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 319 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 242 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Jezvraljogadsrlji" means "Social" in the Jelbic languages. |
| Random quote: "I have no faith in political arithmetic." - Adam Smith |