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Bill: RDP's Election Agenda: Freedom of Religion
Details
Submitted by[?]: Vereinigte Bewegung der Regionen
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: November 3007
Description[?]:
| The RDP stands for more possibilities for our people to express their religious believes. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: Foreign missionaries are not permitted to enter the nation.
Current: The government requires foreign missionaries to register with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Proposed: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards evangelism and religious advertising.
Old value:: Religions are not permitted to promote themselves or advertise in any manner whatsoever.
Current: Religions are permitted to freely promote and advertise themselves.
Proposed: Religions are permitted to freely promote and advertise themselves.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Current: No religions are taxed.
Proposed: No religions are taxed.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
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, with no regulations.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Remuneration of ministers of religion.
Old value:: Ministers of religion shall receive no remuneration whatsoever.
Current: The state does not intervene in the remuneration of ministers of religion.
Proposed: The state does not intervene in the remuneration of ministers of religion.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:40:21, September 29, 2010 CET | From | National Democrats of Dorvik | To | Debating the RDP's Election Agenda: Freedom of Religion |
| Message | Dear speaker NO WAY! |
| Date | 09:55:05, September 29, 2010 CET | From | Vereinigte Bewegung der Regionen | To | Debating the RDP's Election Agenda: Freedom of Religion |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We are puzzled. Why does our colleagues call themselves ' Democrats' if people are not allowed to believe in for instance a relgious supreme being? |
| Date | 11:20:22, September 29, 2010 CET | From | National Democrats of Dorvik | To | Debating the RDP's Election Agenda: Freedom of Religion |
| Message | Mr speaker Of chourse pepole have a rigth to belive in what they want to, may it be Jesus or Santa Claus. But these belives shall not lead the nation! |
| Date | 12:11:29, September 29, 2010 CET | From | Vereinigte Bewegung der Regionen | To | Debating the RDP's Election Agenda: Freedom of Religion |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, It's not a matter of "leading the nation" but of gaining the freedom to organize all religious believes in way they want. .Why do you not allow them to express their believes collectively ? |
| Date | 12:58:55, September 29, 2010 CET | From | National Democrats of Dorvik | To | Debating the RDP's Election Agenda: Freedom of Religion |
| Message | Mr speaker Dose RDP mean that pepole wha belive in stanta clause also dosent have to pay tax? (parden my bad spelling, iam not english) |
| Date | 13:17:07, September 29, 2010 CET | From | Vereinigte Bewegung der Regionen | To | Debating the RDP's Election Agenda: Freedom of Religion |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Of course every citizen should pay taxes. The RDP doesn't want to change that. However, religious based institutions should not be. Our NDD colleagues should consider that as a fair compensation for their community work. |
| Date | 18:30:32, September 29, 2010 CET | From | Dorvikische Volkspartei | To | Debating the RDP's Election Agenda: Freedom of Religion |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Why else would a "Religious" party propose such a bill? They want a theocracy, surely, as their name suggests. We echo the comments made by the National Democrats. I must also voice my concern about these omnibus bills, there are some articles in this bill that we would support, but also some we cannot. |
| Date | 19:59:33, September 29, 2010 CET | From | Vereinigte Bewegung der Regionen | To | Debating the RDP's Election Agenda: Freedom of Religion |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, To the LDP we would like to state that the RDP does not want to achieve a theocracy. However, we do want more religious freedom for our electorate. |
| Date | 20:22:47, September 29, 2010 CET | From | Dorvikische Volkspartei | To | Debating the RDP's Election Agenda: Freedom of Religion |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I urge parties that when they are proposing KEY reforms, that the bill is broken up into seperate articles, rather than omnibus bills. As we have stated, we would have supported some aspects of this bill if it was broken up. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 375 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life fictional references (eg. Gandalf, Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker). |
| Random quote: Time and again, the police prove themselves to be the Class Enemy, an armed mob used to oppress the masses and maintain the wealthy in their privileges. ~Friedrich Pfeiffer, General Secretary of the Dorvish Communist Party |