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Bill: Returning The Right To Practice Religion and Allowing School Prayer (Freedom Act).
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal-Progressive Union
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: September 2199
Description[?]:
| Since there are no more religious schools left operating in Hobrazia, those religious students now in public school must be ensured that their right to pray isn't taken from them like their schools were. As it is optional, denying prayer to those students who wish to is also denying those students the same civil liberties protection granted to everyone else. The law that was originally intended to protect the secular students from the praying, fanatical religous students is now stomping on the freedoms of those religious students and with the government's support. Schools cannot deny any student the right to pray. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Current: Teacher-led prayers in schools are encouraged.
Proposed: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:28:49, March 12, 2006 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Returning The Right To Practice Religion and Allowing School Prayer (Freedom Act). |
| Message | "Schools cannot deny any student the right to pray." - And they aren't. The law just means teachers can't lead the prayers. |
| Date | 15:25:27, March 12, 2006 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Returning The Right To Practice Religion and Allowing School Prayer (Freedom Act). |
| Message | See UB's response. What the introduction of the new law would do is force those pupils attending any school that has a rule that teachers lead prayers to be forced to pray, so these students are now having their civil liberties breached. The current law does no disallow those pupils who wish to pray to pray, but it does stop any teacher from forcing any pupil who does not wish to pray to pray. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 194 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 206 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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