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Bill: The Freedom from Religion bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Socialist 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: January 2186
Description[?]:
| Religious freedoms should include the right to be free from religion. We must respect those with different beliefs and encourage our multicultural society. |
Proposals
Article 1
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: Religious organizations are not permitted to actively promote themselves or advertise, however evangelism is permitted by individuals.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Current: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:54:10, February 13, 2006 CET | From | Capitalism Now! Party | To | Debating the The Freedom from Religion bill |
| Message | Yes! Let's stamp out religion! |
| Date | 23:31:31, February 13, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Liberal Party | To | Debating the The Freedom from Religion bill |
| Message | Stamping out religion is simply ridiculous. |
| Date | 23:47:38, February 13, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the The Freedom from Religion bill |
| Message | We don't wish to stamp it out, we wish to protect individual rights. |
| Date | 00:57:10, February 14, 2006 CET | From | Hammerian Capitalist Party | To | Debating the The Freedom from Religion bill |
| Message | This is a potential stepping stone on that very path. Against one. If businesses can advertise, if the government can broadcast and distribute propaganda, if any one person can say whatever he or she wishes, why should it be any different when they do so as a congregation of many? |
| Date | 00:57:28, February 14, 2006 CET | From | Hammerian Capitalist Party | To | Debating the The Freedom from Religion bill |
| Message | Against two, also. |
| Date | 01:52:41, February 14, 2006 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the The Freedom from Religion bill |
| Message | This is restriction, not progress. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 356 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 244 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State." - Vladimir Lenin |