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Bill: Kulturkampf
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Democrats Union
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: September 3145
Description[?]:
| For a more secular, liberal and Protestant nation. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: The government requires foreign missionaries to register with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Current: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Proposed: The government determines which missionaries are permitted to visit on a person by person basis.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards evangelism and religious advertising.
Old value:: Religions are permitted to freely promote and advertise themselves.
Current: Religions are permitted to freely promote and advertise themselves.
Proposed: Religions are required to obtain government approval before promoting themselves or advertising in any manner.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: No religions are taxed.
Current: No religions are taxed.
Proposed: Recognized religions are not taxed.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Current: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Proposed: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:56:50, July 01, 2011 CET | From | New Aloria Party (NAP) | To | Debating the Kulturkampf |
| Message | This is just making the government involve itself in the church once more. |
| Date | 10:12:27, July 01, 2011 CET | From | Social Democrats Union | To | Debating the Kulturkampf |
| Message | Article 4 isn't it. But the whole point of the kulturkampf is to create a secular but Protestant nation and these policies are the only way to get there. |
| Date | 15:32:21, July 01, 2011 CET | From | Unified Scientists Party | To | Debating the Kulturkampf |
| Message | Is a religion that gains government approval from article 2 then a recognized religion in article 3 thus taxes? If so, then we are not sure what change that would have on current religious tax policy. |
| Date | 19:58:22, July 01, 2011 CET | From | Genuine Progress Alliance | To | Debating the Kulturkampf |
| Message | We are open to Article 4 alone. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 97 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 324 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 197 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope." - Niccolo Machiavelli |