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Bill: Secular State & Secular Education Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dorvische Kommunistische Partei
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: February 4309
Description[?]:
| Mr. Chairman, The growth in extreme religious movements in recent years, particularly the Hosian Preservation Front, highlights the need to avoid children and young people being radicalised in our schools. Religion should have no place in our education system. Also, the state should be fully secular, which means public sector workers should not wear divisive reminders of their religion whilst carrying out their public duties. Anton Weinreich General Secretary of the Dorvish Communist Party |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The state's policy concerning religious clothing.
Old value:: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Current: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Proposed: Public officials are not allowed to wear religious symbols while exercising their duties.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Religious schools are allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
Current: Religious schools are allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
Proposed: Religious schools are not allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:10:12, November 26, 2017 CET | From | Dorvische Sozialistische Union 🌹 | To | Debating the Secular State & Secular Education Act |
| Message | How is banning religious schools secular? |
| Date | 00:12:42, November 26, 2017 CET | From | Dorvische Kommunistische Partei | To | Debating the Secular State & Secular Education Act |
| Message | Mr. Chairman, Building a secular society means having important areas of national life which are not dominated by religion. Schools are particularly important in this regard, as they play a formative role in shaping the development of young people. We do not object to parents raising their children in a particular faith, but we do object to them using the publicly funded education system in order to do it. Anton Weinreich General Secretary of the Dorvish Communist Party |
| Date | 00:12:55, November 26, 2017 CET | From | Dorvische Sozial Nationale Volkspartei | To | Debating the Secular State & Secular Education Act |
| Message | Mr. Chairman, So the concept of secularism is banning religion according to the DKP? What a nonsense. Banning religious schools is not secular its athiest. Public officials wearing religious symbols is there own choice and is secular. Religious schools in a society where non religious schools can also exist is secular. banning religious schools and outlawing the wearing of religious symbols? That is not secular. This bill enforces the imposing of a Athiest state not a secular one. no offense but we are no communist dictatorship. Theodore Aswalt, President of the TGP |
| Date | 00:15:39, November 26, 2017 CET | From | Dorvische Kommunistische Partei | To | Debating the Secular State & Secular Education Act |
| Message | Mr. Chairman, We are not proposing an atheist society, any more than we are proposing a Hosian society or an Ahmadi society. What we are arguing for is a principled position of secularism, which is neutral and fair to all citizens, of all faiths and none. Anton Weinreich General Secretary of the Dorvish Communist Party |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 50 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 467 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 82 |
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