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Bill: Resolution: Recognised Religions
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Socialists
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 2154
Description[?]:
| To be considered a recognised religion by the Republica Baltusia, and gain the benefits granted therof, a religion must: 1) Not require activities or posess internal laws which are repugnant to the laws of Baltusia 2) Have a listed membership of at least 150,000 persons 3) Publish detailed accounts for public scrutiny on at least an annual basis 4) Teach the Baltusian Curriculum in any schools under their auspices, and permit regular inspections |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:33:04, November 28, 2005 CET | From | Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Resolution: Recognised Religions |
| Message | A first draft on the resolution to define 'recognised religions'. We welcome comment and contribution, particularly on what level article 2 should be set at. |
| Date | 09:29:18, November 28, 2005 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Resolution: Recognised Religions |
| Message | What accounts are being published in article 3? Financial? The provisions you have set out are accetable from our point of view but we still remain uncomfortable with the concept of "reocgnised religions" but we will swallow this until we can think of something better. |
| Date | 13:27:53, November 28, 2005 CET | From | Revolutionary Socialist Alliance | To | Debating the Resolution: Recognised Religions |
| Message | What gives anyone the right to catagorise or list anyone's religious belief. I've always thought that the whole 'recognised religions' policy is one of selectivism and division. Therefore any moves to regulate it will be opposed by us. |
| Date | 23:54:12, November 28, 2005 CET | From | Baltusian Pantian Alliance | To | Debating the Resolution: Recognised Religions |
| Message | Aside from also being interested in the contents of article 3 how about the x persons in article 2 being somewhere near the equation we have now for how many people each seat in senate represents. |
| Date | 23:34:54, November 29, 2005 CET | From | Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Resolution: Recognised Religions |
| Message | LL: "Accounts" is in reference to financial accounts, that is correct. RSA: There are a number of provisos in Baltusian law which refer to recognised religions, yet nowhere a statement of what that means. You must either back a resolution defining that, or else place the current laws up for revision. BPA: So then you would want a certain % of the population to follow a religion in order for it to be recognised? What % would you suggest? |
| Date | 03:19:19, November 30, 2005 CET | From | Baltusian Pantian Alliance | To | Debating the Resolution: Recognised Religions |
| Message | Whatever % of the population that it takes up in an electoral district for a single seat in the Baltusian federal senate. |
| Date | 08:44:02, November 30, 2005 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Resolution: Recognised Religions |
| Message | It shouldnt be a percentage, especially since the electorates arent based on percentages. The current electorate system aims for around 150 000 people (which needs to be updated before the next election), so should that be the benchmark? |
| Date | 23:51:50, November 30, 2005 CET | From | Baltusian Pantian Alliance | To | Debating the Resolution: Recognised Religions |
| Message | I find it reasonable does anyone object to it? |
| Date | 01:30:52, December 01, 2005 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Resolution: Recognised Religions |
| Message | IC: Sounds about right. OOC: Its funny though that in my humble opinion, it should only require 100 or so people to start a political party, with which you could come to be in charge of all the schools in Baltusia, but it takes 150 000 to start a religion so you can be in charge of a few. |
| Date | 03:17:51, December 01, 2005 CET | From | Baltusian Pantian Alliance | To | Debating the Resolution: Recognised Religions |
| Message | OOC: no one ever said politics made sense no one can ever truely judge right or wrong all we are is just a bunch of guys guessing at what we think should be(except the ISP of course). >.> im a jackass |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 224 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 47 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 71 |
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