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Bill: Freedom of Religion Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Populist 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: June 4227
Description[?]:
| To ensure that the state does not use its powers to condone or condemn any system of belief or religious organization. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: All religious income, despite the use, is 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 2
Proposal[?] to change The state's policy concerning religious clothing.
Old value:: Public officials are not allowed to wear religious symbols while exercising their duties.
Current: Wearing religious clothing or religious symbols in public is illegal.
Proposed: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Religious schools are not allowed.
Current: Religious schools are not allowed.
Proposed: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Current: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:14:10, June 15, 2017 CET | From | Social Liberal Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Religion Act |
| Message | Our focus on Freedom of Religion does not only implies that religion can be chosen and pratised freely, but also that no religion is imposed or pushed towards anyone against their will. Religious schools are places where religions are imposed over defenseless children. Schools are no place for religion but for science, history, knowledge and facts. Temples are appropriate places for religion instead. While exercising their duties, public officials are representing the people, and consequently religious symbols worn by those public officials go against the religious freedom of those represented by the official. And on fiscal matters, we have always defended that all companies must follow the same tax framework. If religious corporations make profits, then these profits must be thoroughly taxed the same as the profits of any other company, wherever the money comes from. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 180 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 80 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 5 |
| Random fact: Players who consent to a particular role-play by acknowledging it in their own role-play cannot then disown it or withdraw their consent from it. For example, if player A role-plays the assassination of player B's character, and player B then acknowledges the assassination in a news post, but then backtracks and insists the assassination did not happen, then he will be required under the rules to accept the validity of the assassination role-play. |
| Random quote: "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower |