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Bill: Religious Liberty Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kundrati Liberty Movement (KLM)
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: September 3353
Description[?]:
| Fundamental human rights include the right to free speech and expression. This should, logically, also include religion. To restrict these fundamental rights would run counter to the founding ideals of any Republic. |
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 governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Religious schools are not allowed.
Current: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Proposed: Any religion may set up a school, with no regulations.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:29:27, August 21, 2012 CET | From | Centrist Union | To | Debating the Religious Liberty Act |
| Message | We do feel religious schools ought to be subject to some regulation, but we will support this so that they may exist. |
| Date | 00:25:40, August 22, 2012 CET | From | Kundrati Liberty Movement (KLM) | To | Debating the Religious Liberty Act |
| Message | Thank you, if you like you can always propose a reform of that part after this bill passes. Though I would argue that people ought to be free to run their own lives. Why should the Government be regulating any schools? Why not allow individuals to regulate the schools themselves? Why not allow private regulation rather than state-based regulation? Any industry without government regulations necessarily creates private regulation or self-regulation. This is logical since there is a natural demand for quality education and standards. These standards, however, are best set by a free market than the state. After all, how can we expect an easily lobbied organization to fairly regulate anything? Instead independent non-profit institutions would emerge that would be considerably harder to control and manipulate. You want to control the government? Just lobby them and give politicians all kinds of favors and they will return them. You want to control a voluntary organization that's run by people who really believe in what they are doing and that has to compete with other similar organizations and it's reputation would ruin it if it was corrupt? Good luck! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 403 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 140 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 207 |
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