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Bill: Religious Education reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hulstrian People's Alliance
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: September 2728
Description[?]:
| Not every citizen is a member of the official Church of this land, and indeed not every citizen has a religious faith at all. The BHV therefore proposes that the requirement that all schools be religious be replaced. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: All schools are required to be religious in nature.
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, but they are strictly regulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:54:40, March 19, 2009 CET | From | Konstitutionelle Monarchie Partei | To | Debating the Religious Education reform |
| Message | There is no official church for the Imperial Crownlands. While there is a national church, it is not the official one, and citizens are not required to join it. Also by Hulstrian law, people are able to take the option of being homeschooled, and if athiests (not even a dot on Hulstria's religious scene) don't like how this law is set up they are free to set up their own school system based on their teachings or choose to be schooled at home. Regulations should not be set upon religion in the Crownlands. |
| Date | 12:37:21, March 20, 2009 CET | From | Hulstrian People's Alliance | To | Debating the Religious Education reform |
| Message | Precisely, regulations should not be set upon religion. One of the largest that currently exists is "a school must be religious, no questions asked". While the BHV cannot understand the conscious adoption of atheism, it would remain to be seen whether a school designed to teach atheist understandings of the world would be deemed "religious" by the relevant authorities. This proposal seeks to remove that potential confusion. And regarding the "official church", that was a slip of the tongue on the part of the author of the bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 399 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 326 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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