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Bill: SCI Anti-Religion Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: SCI Libertarian-Socialist Syndicate (LL)
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 3481
Description[?]:
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Current: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Proposed: Foreign missionaries are not permitted to enter the nation.
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 not permitted to promote themselves or advertise in any manner whatsoever.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Current: Only recognised religions may set up religious schools, with no regulations.
Proposed: Religious schools are not allowed.
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: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning religions.
Old value:: There is no government policy concerning a state religion.
Current: There is an official state religion, but membership is completely voluntary.
Proposed: Any form of religion is banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:57:51, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Conservative Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the SCI Anti-Religion Bill |
| Message | State-sponsored atheism and abolition of the freedom of religion. |
| Date | 13:41:57, May 05, 2013 CET | From | SCI Libertarian-Socialist Syndicate (LL) | To | Debating the SCI Anti-Religion Bill |
| Message | State-Sponsored Sanity and the abolition of the "freedom" of schizophrenia. This is SCI-specific legislation, we don't expect our LL brethren to share our distaste for this particular destructive societal meme. |
| Date | 14:35:34, May 05, 2013 CET | From | Green-Left Communalist Collective | To | Debating the SCI Anti-Religion Bill |
| Message | Our Syndicate, speaking collectively, is a secular organisation with a strong atheistic tradition. We stand for reason and enlightened humanism. We do however have many members committed to the Indralan Eastern Spiritual Enlightenment movements, as well as other ethicists with a tradition founded in the mystical 'Seeker' movement. We will support the banning of religious promotion, as organised religion is a scourge, but not on the banning of religion on a societal level for libertarian reasons. |
| Date | 07:45:43, May 06, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Communist Party (DCP) (LL) | To | Debating the SCI Anti-Religion Bill |
| Message | Most of my parties members are atheist/agnostic but we do have members of many religious affiliations that are objected to Capitalism as a moral issue, and thusly we can not support an all out ban on religion. |
| Date | 10:55:42, May 06, 2013 CET | From | Green-Left Communalist Collective | To | Debating the SCI Anti-Religion Bill |
| Message | We would abstain as we believe that legislation proposed by our fellow libertarian socialists must be of the same principles as ourselves, however, as we disagree on this article, and we wish to always exercise our member's votes in the Presidium we will vote no. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 127 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 540 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 63 |
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