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Bill: Change to Religion:
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Workers
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: December 2706
Description[?]:
With regard to the second article, The POL has understood that this law will create a minister for the religion in each state, and the people will have to report their work to the central government. We have no intention of stopping religions from choosing their own ministers, as this is the choice of the religion. We believe that an official state religion will help the nation as they will be for the nation and all it's people, giving the nation donations etc which it recieves, and putting them into the morally right part of society that needs them. This is why there is not a policy making mebership mandatory. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The state's intervention in the appointment of ministers of religion.
Old value:: The state does not intervene in the appointment of ministers of any religion whatsoever.
Current: The state does not intervene in the appointment of ministers of any religion whatsoever.
Proposed: The state appoints the head and ministers of the state religion, but does not intervene otherwise.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning religions.
Old value:: There is no government policy concerning a state religion.
Current: There is no official state religion, but the government only allows recognized religions. 'Cults' are persecuted.
Proposed: There is an official state religion, but membership is completely voluntary.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:03:47, February 03, 2009 CET | From | Christian Democrat Party | To | Debating the Change to Religion: |
| Message | What would the official state religion be? |
| Date | 21:30:43, February 03, 2009 CET | From | Neo Kanist Rite Party of Sorbanika | To | Debating the Change to Religion: |
| Message | We are not too sure about the first proposal. We believe that it is neccessary for all foreign missionaries to register with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs because we must have a record of their comings and goings. We can also stop any extremist missionaries from practising in our nation, although it is unlikely that any of them would go through the process of registering with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, if they are found to be preaching then we can kick them out for not having registered. In short we heartfully encourage foreign missionaries but believe that there must be controls and regulations on their comings and goings; therefore they must register when entering or leaving the nation. As for the Second proposal we believe that this is fair as long as the religious communities can also nominate people to run for religious positions. With regard to the third if it were to be passed then we would have to have a vote to see what our official state religion would be. |
| Date | 21:46:57, February 03, 2009 CET | From | Christian Democrat Party | To | Debating the Change to Religion: |
| Message | Yes we agree with having a vote for the official state religion. The Christian Democrat Party will be voting for Islam. |
| Date | 21:59:43, February 03, 2009 CET | From | United Workers | To | Debating the Change to Religion: |
| Message | Yes, thank you for the positive feedback. I will be very happy to put the state religion up to vote as this is a neccesary part of society. Ihave also removed Article 1, which has been shown to have the least support |
| Date | 00:19:31, February 04, 2009 CET | From | TW@ | To | Debating the Change to Religion: |
| Message | Christian Democrat party, Islam? |
| Date | 10:19:34, February 04, 2009 CET | From | Neo Kanist Rite Party of Sorbanika | To | Debating the Change to Religion: |
| Message | OOC: TW@ it was a joke. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 453 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 213 |
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