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Bill: Ensuring Religious Freedoms
Details
Submitted by[?]: Lutte Féministe de Libération
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: January 2185
Description[?]:
| While we must strive to recognize the importance of keeping organized religious authority out of the affairs of government, we must be equally conscious of keeping government authority out of the affairs of religion, which has long held a well-deserved place as being uniquely independent of conventional wisdom on regulation and oversight. ARTICLE 1: Allows for the free visitation by foreign missionaries spreading their word to the people of Rildanor. Except in cases of violent foreign missionaries (which would be excluded from visiting for security reasons, not religious ones), foreign missionaries should be given the same freedom we expect our own to recieve abroad. By limiting which peaceful missionaries can come and go, we limit the free expression of religious and spiritual thought and risk being discriminatory in which religions we approve for visitation. ARTICLE 2: Religions, like corporations, should generally be given free reign over advertising themselves, as they are especially susceptible to being discriminated against by government authorities, who through cultural or religious misunderstandings disapprove of the religion in question. Previous arguments on this issue have raised the concern that this would legalize advertising by radical, violent religious groups, but these groups would be banned from advertising anyway because their message preaches violence. ARTICLE 3: No religions should be taxed because they are not corporations but spiritual communities often dedicated to acts of good deeds that benefit the community. We expect that this may be supported by unusual allies in other parties, but we accept this as the necessary path towards achieving a just goal: ensuring religious independence from government. |
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 selectively screens which religions are permitted to send missionaries to the nation. Certain religions are approved and travel is unregulated.
Proposed: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards evangelism and religious advertising.
Old value:: Religions are required to obtain government approval before promoting themselves or advertising in any manner.
Current: Religious organizations are not permitted to actively promote themselves or advertise, however evangelism is permitted by individuals.
Proposed: Religions are permitted to freely promote and advertise themselves.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: Recognized religions are not taxed.
Current: Recognized religions are not taxed.
Proposed: No religions are taxed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:49:12, February 11, 2006 CET | From |  Front Canrillaise | To | Debating the Ensuring Religious Freedoms |
| Message | We don't know how to vote on this one... We're religious, but we only want freedoms for our state religion only, which is long gone now. |
| Date | 14:29:23, February 11, 2006 CET | From | Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Ensuring Religious Freedoms |
| Message | we support. |
| Date | 21:55:15, February 11, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Ensuring Religious Freedoms |
| Message | Please vote yes RWE. We're hoping for your support, and no doubt will need to pass this over the objections of more atheistic parties. |
| Date | 18:44:57, February 12, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Ensuring Religious Freedoms |
| Message | What gives, DEP??? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 193 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 169 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 196 |
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