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Bill: Ensuring Religious Freedoms
Details
Submitted by[?]: Lutte Féministe de Libération
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 2181
Description[?]:
| Whereas an institutional state religion, mandatory or not, amounts to a government passive support for religion. Whereas the separation of church and state is a key component of modern democracies. Whereas no man should claim his religion as more important than anothers. Whereas the people of Rildanor desire a more secular society. Whereas maintaining a state religion often alienates members of society. Resolved, the government of Rildanor scraps the concept of a state religion as a hideous relic of the former theocracy and advocates a return to the age of reason and personal pursuits of spiritual meaning that were the hallmarks of the last decades. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning religions.
Old value:: There is an official state religion, but membership is completely voluntary.
Current: There is no official state religion, but the government only allows recognized religions. 'Cults' are persecuted.
Proposed: There is no government policy concerning a state religion.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:08:18, February 04, 2006 CET | From |  Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Ensuring Religious Freedoms |
| Message | We fully support. |
| Date | 04:11:04, February 04, 2006 CET | From | Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Ensuring Religious Freedoms |
| Message | We are still surprised to see that the former theocracy is still an issue. |
| Date | 10:03:35, February 04, 2006 CET | From | Devout Ecologists Party | To | Debating the Ensuring Religious Freedoms |
| Message | Blegh, undoing what we (RWE&us) achieved last term. And pft at your age of reason. Reason and religion can coexist and cooperate. A lot of men who made great achievements were devout believers. Besides, state religion does not intervene with the personal persuit to spiritual meaning. In fact, we see it as an stimulating aid for the people's personal persuit to spiritual meaning. We see religion as benefactory and certainly not as a means to dictate one's religion more important than another's. That is certainly not the case or the intention of the state religion. But meh, it seems that the RWE and us are the sole parties who support a state religion. |
| Date | 00:12:01, February 05, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Ensuring Religious Freedoms |
| Message | The Leftist People's Party is a party of devout believers as well. We just do not believe that we have the right to assert our religion as morally superior to any others. A democratic government must represent the beliefs and opinions of all its people, and should not create a favored religion, any more than it should create a favored culture by adopting a national language. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 168 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 185 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 147 |
| Random fact: Particracy allows you to establish an unelected head of state like a monarch or a president-for-life, but doing this is a bit of a process. First elect a candidate with the name "." to the Head of State position. Then change your law on the "Structure of the executive branch" to "The head of state is hereditary and symbolic; the head of government chairs the cabinet" and change the "formal title of the head of state" to how you want the new head of state's title and name to appear (eg. King Percy XVI). |
| Random quote: "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln |