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Bill: Secular Schooling Protection Bill of 3975
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federal Progress 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: August 3976
Description[?]:
| School should be a secular affair and religious schools should still need to meet certain regulatory standards set by the government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Only recognised religions may set up religious schools, with no regulations.
Current: Any religion may set up a school, with no regulations.
Proposed: Religious schools are allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
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 | 23:47:18, January 28, 2016 CET | From | Bailonese Council Communist Party (BCCP) | To | Debating the Secular Schooling Protection Bill of 3975 |
| Message | Is the FPP proposing we make secularism the state-religion too? Secular schools already do not permit prayer, why force this onto religious schools? |
| Date | 05:58:08, January 29, 2016 CET | From | Federal Progress Party | To | Debating the Secular Schooling Protection Bill of 3975 |
| Message | Children do not control which school they are sent to if they wish to engage in prayer those activities can be engaged outside of the education environment. |
| Date | 17:53:08, January 29, 2016 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Secular Schooling Protection Bill of 3975 |
| Message | Children attending religious schools often do so because they are religious themselves. Children in religious schools have very right to practice their religion as part of their education - or at least during the school day via these teacher-led prayers. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that: I think it's a ridiculous assertion to suggest that children attending religious schools had no say whatsoever over their education. |
| Date | 19:55:53, January 29, 2016 CET | From | Federal Progress Party | To | Debating the Secular Schooling Protection Bill of 3975 |
| Message | Why would you assume a child would have control over what school he is sent to? If they wish to seek religion they can do so outside of the education environment. |
| Date | 20:00:19, January 30, 2016 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Secular Schooling Protection Bill of 3975 |
| Message | This is a worrying attack on religious freedoms. |
| Date | 11:55:33, January 31, 2016 CET | From | Unsubmissive Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Secular Schooling Protection Bill of 3975 |
| Message | We support a secular state but we believe that this bill has gone too far |
| Date | 03:43:08, February 01, 2016 CET | From | Federal Progress Party | To | Debating the Secular Schooling Protection Bill of 3975 |
| Message | In no way does this restrict the practice of any religion except withing this very specific circumstance. Would the parliament be open to a bill containing only article 1? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 306 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 444 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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