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Bill: Religious Neutrality Bill of 2755
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Party - Republican Democrats
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: February 2756
Description[?]:
We believe that all public officials should refrain from displaying their religious allegiance while exercising their duties, as such demonstrations compromise the religious neutrality of the public institutions these officials are representing. |
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: Public officials are not allowed to wear religious symbols while exercising their duties.
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 | 09:14:14, May 13, 2009 CET | From | Green Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Religious Neutrality Bill of 2755 |
Message | The neutrality of public services is only to be achieved through the universal acceptance that religion is a matter for the individual, not for the state or even other people to interfere. |
Date | 09:24:15, May 13, 2009 CET | From | People's Party - Republican Democrats | To | Debating the Religious Neutrality Bill of 2755 |
Message | And that's why we believe that public officials should refrain from demonstrating their religious allegiance while exercising their duties. What they do in their own time is of no interest to the public, but flaunting their religion into the faces of the members of the members of the public, who may be of a different religious persuasion and whom public officials are supposed to serve, compromises the religious neutrality of our public institutions. |
Date | 14:19:54, May 13, 2009 CET | From | Green Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Religious Neutrality Bill of 2755 |
Message | What a person wears is not the problem. The problem is how others react to it. If someone is offended because he sees someone wearing a shirt with his (the see-er) name, do we tell the wearer to change his shirt? And don't say religion is different, because by acknowledging that it is, you are stepping away from being a secular party. |
Date | 15:48:40, May 13, 2009 CET | From | People's Party - Republican Democrats | To | Debating the Religious Neutrality Bill of 2755 |
Message | What a person wears when exercising a public function can be a problem. Many religions do implicitely maintain that they are the only true religion. Which can be offensive for members of other religions (and agnostics and atheists, for that matter). When public officials perform their public duties, which they are paid for by the public and which they are exercising in the name of the whole public, they should refrain from bringing their private beliefs into these affairs. And the wearing of religious symbols is a statement of private beliefs which is potentially offensive for members of the public. |
Date | 16:49:04, May 14, 2009 CET | From | Green Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Religious Neutrality Bill of 2755 |
Message | As long as they are not preaching and forcing people to join specific beliefs, hey are not bringing their private beliefs into public affairs. You, on the other hand, are preaching and forcing secularism, instead of promoting an open-minded society where every religious, and non-religious, expression (amongst others) are embraced. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes | Total Seats: 172 | ||||
no |
Total Seats: 327 | ||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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