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Bill: Increasing the Secularism of the State Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Zardugal Trade Unionist Party
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: February 2155
Description[?]:
| We of the Zardugal Socialist Party feel it necessary to increase the secularism of the state at this time. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Religious schools are allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
Current: Only recognised religions may set up religious schools, with no regulations.
Proposed: Religious schools are not allowed.
Article 2
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: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:41:00, December 11, 2005 CET | From |  Roman Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Increasing the Secularism of the State Bill |
| Message | Ridiculous. Why, pray tell, do you feel it is necessary to remove religious schools? We are most definitely against this course of action. |
| Date | 06:51:04, December 11, 2005 CET | From | Zardugal Trade Unionist Party | To | Debating the Increasing the Secularism of the State Bill |
| Message | By allowing religious schools, the government is giving tacit consent that its alright to simply allow the indoctrination of the youth, in other words, state sponsered brainwashing to a deffinitive extent. |
| Date | 07:16:17, December 11, 2005 CET | From | Roman Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Increasing the Secularism of the State Bill |
| Message | The state doesn't make it mandatory to go to religious schools. It is the decision of the parents and theirs alone. You are impeding on their right to religious instruction. |
| Date | 07:29:41, December 11, 2005 CET | From | Zardugal Trade Unionist Party | To | Debating the Increasing the Secularism of the State Bill |
| Message | No, they're still allowed to send their children to sunday school, which even though it has the word school in it, is most deffinately not a school. Regardless, religious instruction refers to the idea of teaching religion, which was my point. By allowing these schools to exist, the government is indeed giving tacit consent. |
| Date | 23:49:59, December 11, 2005 CET | From | Roman Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Increasing the Secularism of the State Bill |
| Message | Please. These religious schools are privately owned. They are not funded by the government. There is no mandatory attendence. It is ridiculous to have them banned. All I see here is a step in the direction of outlawing religion by socialists. I will not allow this. |
| Date | 08:03:58, December 12, 2005 CET | From | New Daio Party | To | Debating the Increasing the Secularism of the State Bill |
| Message | The state will not interfere in matters of religion. We will neither permit it to rule us nor remove it from the scope of daily life. It is a basic human right to worship as one chooses, and the state will not be the opiate of the masses in this nation. NAY. |
| Date | 08:07:03, December 12, 2005 CET | From | Zardugal Trade Unionist Party | To | Debating the Increasing the Secularism of the State Bill |
| Message | Because taking away a religious school is taking away the right to worship as one chooses.....of course we can ALL see that. |
| Date | 09:24:19, December 12, 2005 CET | From | Roman Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Increasing the Secularism of the State Bill |
| Message | And of course we can all see that private religious schools is government indoctrination. <rolls eyes> |
| Date | 21:12:47, December 12, 2005 CET | From | Republican Party of Zardugal | To | Debating the Increasing the Secularism of the State Bill |
| Message | I agree with article II, but in a nation that is free, private schools are allowed, and part of them being private is so they adhere to a certain set of principles that their students want. In public schools, prayer should not be encouraged since the schools are public. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 501 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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