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Bill: End the Religious Business
Details
Submitted by[?]: Nemangha Humananghô
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: December 3018
Description[?]:
| A bill to prevent religious leaders, Aldegarian or otherwise, from exploiting loopholes in market regulation that consider religious organizations exceptional to other businesses. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Current: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Proposed: The government requires foreign missionaries to register with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Remuneration of ministers of religion.
Old value:: The state does not intervene in the remuneration of ministers of religion.
Current: The state does not intervene in the remuneration of ministers of religion.
Proposed: Ministers of religion shall receive no remuneration whatsoever.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:22:03, October 21, 2010 CET | From | People's Party - Republican Democrats | To | Debating the End the Religious Business |
| Message | It certainly should be left to the respective religious congregations whether they wish to remunerate their ministers or not, as long as they pay it out of their own money. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 43 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 130 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 26 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." - Thomas Jefferson |