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Bill: Encourage Missionaries
Details
Submitted by[?]: Heaven on Terra (IA)
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 2900
Description[?]:
| Heaven on Terra would like to propose a bill that would encourage missionaries to come to our country. Missionaries and those who promote different views should be welcomed into our land. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: The government selectively screens which religions are permitted to send missionaries to the nation. Certain religions are approved and travel is unregulated.
Current: The government requires foreign missionaries to register with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Proposed: Foreign missionaries are welcomed and encouraged by the government.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:56:51, February 25, 2010 CET | From | Constitutionalist Imperial League (IA) | To | Debating the Encourage Missionaries |
| Message | Mr Speaker, We believe some religions promote ideologies that are hamrfull to the public good and endorse violence and terrorism. Such religions should not be allowed to freely advertize themselves. While we understand the good sentiment behind the HoT's proposal, we must vote no. I yield. |
| Date | 05:32:29, February 25, 2010 CET | From | Heaven on Terra (IA) | To | Debating the Encourage Missionaries |
| Message | Sir, we understand the fear many have of other religions or religions known for violence. We though would like state that there are laws that all religions must obey, laws set in place to protect the public good and to prevent violence. If those laws are broken by the missionaries then they would have to face the punishment for those crimes like any other visitor to our nation would have to. We the HoT believe in freedom of religion and we believe that religion can be beneficial to our nation. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 43 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 157 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
| Random quote: "To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is barbarity." - Maximilien Robespierre |