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Bill: Secular Nation Act of 3512
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Hutori Party
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: July 3513
Description[?]:
| It is important for any free nation to respect the beliefs of all of it's citizens, and prefer none over the others. Thus, in an integrated society it is important that public funds not be spent on something as personal, and diverse, as religious beliefs, and that no one religion be endorsed and held up as preferable to all others by our legislative body, regardless of the religious belief's of its head of state, or its elected officials. With this bill, we hope the people will support us in welcoming all religions to Hutori, and in ensuring that all are equal and free in the eyes of the law. |
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 requires foreign missionaries to register with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Proposed: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: Recognized religions are not taxed.
Current: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Proposed: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning religions.
Old value:: There is an official state religion, but membership is completely voluntary.
Current: There is an official state religion, but membership is completely voluntary.
Proposed: There is no government policy concerning a state religion.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:45:26, July 09, 2013 CET | From | Federalist Republican Party | To | Debating the Secular Nation Act of 3512 |
| Message | The Confederation is glad to support these initiatives. We voted in favor of the omnibus bill proposed by the Labor Party which initiated the current rules because we saw it as the best way to ensure the decriminalization of religion. While we respect the positions of the Labor party regarding the state religion, we simply feel that having fought so hard to stop the state from attacking religion, the end goal must in fact be the total separation of the government from religious affairs. We do wish that no religions would be taxed at all, but we are satisfied that the interests of uniformity outweigh our concerns with religious taxation. Col. William Winick MP and Vice Chairman of the Council of Faith |
| Date | 05:59:52, July 09, 2013 CET | From | Moderate Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Secular Nation Act of 3512 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I do not see how these proposals create a "secular nation". If the FHP were truly interested in such an ideal, they should consult the former rules of Hutori--no religion, no schools, no symbols, state or private. Period. These Articles--current and proposed--are heinously outside of the beliefs of the Front that it may very well abstain out of protest to everything being considered. Ryan Tisillenda, MP Secular Policy Analyst, the United Leftist Front |
| Date | 07:06:09, July 09, 2013 CET | From | Free Hutori Party | To | Debating the Secular Nation Act of 3512 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Honourable members of the United Leftist Front, We are a free nation, that is, a nation of free citizens. This means we must be free from being forced to support religions, we must be free from being forced to fund religions, and we must be free from those who would seek to enforce the morality of religons on those of us who do not believe. However, we must -also- be free to believe the religion of our choice, to worship and to preach. We cannot countenance any laws that would seek to force religion, or ban religion, from any citizen of our country against their will. With this bill, we can welcome religions into the country, whilst ensuring they are given no privileges not only over each other, but over non-religious organisations. As such, we are proposing to remove the state religion, and adjust the tax code to treat a religion the same as any other organisation. This, in the opinion of the Free Hutori Party, will be a secular nation. |
| Date | 22:44:31, July 10, 2013 CET | From | Revolutionary Socialist Party | To | Debating the Secular Nation Act of 3512 |
| Message | The Revolutionary Socialist Party will support this. We take on board however the concerns of the speaker from the ULF. And hope that in the future we can move even further and push the separation further. We also have concerns about Article 1 but the whole bill is of a progressive (if only slightly) nature. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 219 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 47 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 125 |
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