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Bill: Ban Religious Discrimination
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Front for Change
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: March 2884
Description[?]:
| To prevent government-endorsed religion. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Current: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:41:14, January 24, 2010 CET | From |  Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Ban Religious Discrimination |
| Message | The Prime Minister: Mr Speaker, this has nothing to do with "government-endorsed religion". There should be nothing in law forbidding individual schools from offering prayer, should that appear to be a desire of the children, parents and families of that locality. No doubt, Mr Speaker, in the overwhelming majority of cases, children will be allowed to opt-out from such prayers should they desire. It is not only religious schools that contain religious children, and this should be respected. Mr Speaker, the UFC just has no respect for religion whatsoever, and their prejudices should not be tolerated. |
| Date | 19:49:12, January 24, 2010 CET | From | United Front for Change | To | Debating the Ban Religious Discrimination |
| Message | The only way for the government to remain neutral with respect to our nation's great religious diversity is to disallow religious prayers in schools and encourage schools to focus solely on education. |
| Date | 20:36:32, January 24, 2010 CET | From | House Lusk-Nat'l Syndicalist Party (UM) | To | Debating the Ban Religious Discrimination |
| Message | Mr Speaker, the member from the United Front is mistaken. Our country is not one of great religious diversity— where it is religious, and we are not a very religious country, it is almost wholly Christian, and there almost wholly Lutheran or Catholic. "Our Father," which has been declared by the Bekenial Rabbinate to be acceptable for Jewish children to say, is the standard prayer at the beginning of classes in many parts of Hutori, although schools are permitted of course to abolish it or choose a different prayer. The prayers help encourage cultural coherence and give some common cultural ground besides trashy popular music and television. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 201 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 190 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Players must never be asked for their Particracy password. This includes Moderation; a genuine Moderator will never ask for your password. |
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