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Bill: Freedom of Thought & Believe Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Union Socialism Alliance
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: November 3122
Description[?]:
| The government has no right to run our minds. Promotion and advertisement of religion shall undergo every and all regulation on advertisement and content regulation of the state. No exceptions Public officials shall all be similarly uniformed. No religious, ideological, philosophical, national or any other symbols are permitted during their service and working hours. Every and all religion are allowed to set up a school, but are not allowed to teach the said religion of the church in the curriculum. They will fall under the same regulation and restrictions as any other (private) school, and will also run the same curriculum-schedule as all the other schools does. As with other schools, the school themselves may choose books, study-programmes or general system of education, as long as it is approved by the Department of Education & Culture. Religious practice, sermons, prayers, lesson, may take place in weekends or after school hours. Parents may decide during the first year, and after wards, both the child and the parents must consent to attending after-school religious programmes. The government shall have no role in religious matter, besides where the laws state. The state will recognise the freedom of though and belief. On the taxation policies, only profit will be taxed, but donations must be properly allocated and spend, or be subjected to taxations. |
Proposals
Article 1
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 2
Proposal[?] to change The state's policy concerning religious clothing.
Old value:: Wearing religious clothing or religious symbols in public is illegal.
Current: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Proposed: Public officials are not allowed to wear religious symbols while exercising their duties.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning religions.
Old value:: Any form of religion is banned.
Current: There is no government policy concerning a state religion.
Proposed: There is no government policy concerning a state religion.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:18:58, May 16, 2011 CET | From |  Dark Templar (LL) | To | Debating the Freedom of Thought & Believe Bill |
| Message | The government does not run the minds of the people keeping the ban on religion allows people to actually think for themselves, this way religion does not run the minds of the people. |
| Date | 06:00:19, May 16, 2011 CET | From | Marxist-Leninist Party of Ikradon (LL) | To | Debating the Freedom of Thought & Believe Bill |
| Message | NO. NO, AND NO to Article 3. Religion is fine, but indoctrination is not. |
| Date | 06:15:11, May 16, 2011 CET | From | SCI Libertarian-Socialist Syndicate (LL) | To | Debating the Freedom of Thought & Believe Bill |
| Message | We would accept article 2, but none of the others. |
| Date | 06:15:42, May 16, 2011 CET | From | SCI Libertarian-Socialist Syndicate (LL) | To | Debating the Freedom of Thought & Believe Bill |
| Message | Actually, on second thought, we don't support any of the articles. |
| Date | 11:41:08, May 16, 2011 CET | From | Beloved Freedom | To | Debating the Freedom of Thought & Believe Bill |
| Message | fully supports, but it seems like that the bill is unlikely to be passed in the current parliament |
| Date | 15:23:24, May 16, 2011 CET | From | Union Socialism Alliance | To | Debating the Freedom of Thought & Believe Bill |
| Message | @CFP; Article 3? Religious clothing? @DT; The government banning religion IS telling the people "thou aren't allowed to believe in that" and thus denying them freedom of thought. @SCI-LSS; Libertarians, huh.. |
| Date | 21:09:29, May 16, 2011 CET | From | Marxist-Leninist Party of Ikradon (LL) | To | Debating the Freedom of Thought & Believe Bill |
| Message | Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated. |
| Date | 09:27:44, May 17, 2011 CET | From | SCI Libertarian-Socialist Syndicate (LL) | To | Debating the Freedom of Thought & Believe Bill |
| Message | As I continue to state, religion is a form of mental illness. These people need our help, not our blessing to continue in their illogical meanderings. Especially not when they attempt to persuade others into their dangerous and destructive beliefs. The SCI treats religion as any other debilitating mental disorder like Schizophrenia or Psychosis. Those afflicted should be deemed dangerous in population and undergo therapy. |
| Date | 14:48:46, May 18, 2011 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Thought & Believe Bill |
| Message | Via cellphone: Bans on religion turn the state into a church. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 440 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 310 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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