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Bill: Lex Mutanabbia de Sermone Odioso
Details
Submitted by[?]: Factio Republicana Socialistica
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: May 4443
Description[?]:
| Mutanabbian Law on Hate Speech Senators, Selucia is a diverse and multicultural nation where numerous religions are practiced. It is in the public interest for the government to defend the distinct practices and beliefs of its citizens and promote tolerance and understanding instead of hate and violence. In light of this it is unacceptable that, in some regions, there is no protection against the publishing of discriminatory or hateful speech and the incitement of religious violence. For this reason we call for the application of laws against religious defamation throughout the territory of the Republic. Should this bill pass hate speech directed against religions shall be made illegal. Whoever, with deliberate and malicious intent of outraging the religious feelings of any class of citizens, by words, spoken or written in public, or by signs or visible representation, insults or attempts to insult the religion or religious beliefs of that class, shall be punished with imprisonment of up to three years, or a fine, or both. Haider bin Talal al-Mutanabbi Dux Oppositionis OOC: This should cover all religion equivalents: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6731 |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change State penalties for blasphemy
Old value:: Local governments decide on penalties for blasphemy.
Current: Public blasphemy is considered a minor offense.
Proposed: Public blasphemy is considered a criminal offense.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:24:05, August 20, 2018 CET | From | Clara Aurora - COSIRA | To | Debating the Lex Mutanabbia de Sermone Odioso |
| Message | Senators, The government has already been flexible enough, and it did not have to be, allowing the regions to determine the penalties. But the Hon. Senator Al-Mutanabbi is grazing religious fanaticism with its latest proposals. First, critical manifestations should not be criminalized even if someone may consider them distasteful or disrespectful. In a pluralist democratic society, citizens must tolerate and accept the denial by others of their beliefs and even the alienation of doctrines hostile to their faith. Although announcements or words may be considered offensive by the majority of the religious population, it would be incompatible with the values of human rights itself to submit the exercise of their rights by a minority group to the acceptance of the majority. The opposite would turn freedom of expression into a merely theoretical right. There are religious people who can be disturbed by the rest of humanity's way of thinking. Some people may feel very offended by the disbelief, by the humor or by the lack of other people's faith, but that annoyance is exclusively the result of mere religious discrepancy. The playful, recreational or casual use of an image or words can not be considered offensive only because certain people give the image a symbolic value that excludes such use. If that is accepted, we would be imposing on the whole of society the observance of mandates that are the product of a certain religious faith. No one should be condemned for eating meat in Lent, for keeping a Koran in an inappropriate place or for making cartoons with a Christ (OOC: I do not know the equivalent in PT). In all these cases, these are mandates that only link those who freely profess a certain religion, but not the citizenry as a whole. The crime of blasphemy should not exist. There are already other precepts of our nation's criminal code that punish offenses against honor or integrity. The mere derision of a confession is an exercise of freedom of expression and that only when there is express or deliberate intention to offend or humiliate on the basis of religious beliefs may be applied the penalties provided by the regions, but in no case will be converted by criminal law similar exaggeration of proposal. Xenia Ulfila Senatrix |
| Date | 10:05:06, August 21, 2018 CET | From | Factio Republicana Socialistica | To | Debating the Lex Mutanabbia de Sermone Odioso |
| Message | Senators, Most of the examples Senatrix Ulfila mentions do not fall under the scope of this proposal, which only criminalizes religious hate speech if it is committed with deliberate and malicious intent. The purpose of this proposal is to guarantee the undominated exercise of religious freedom, a fundamental human right and one of the rights recognized by the Selucian Bill of Rights. This bill does not restrict good-faith religious disagreements and even heated disputes. What it does criminalize is the unequal power relations where religious minorities are deliberately and maliciously insulted, degraded, and marginalized under the pretext of "free expression". Our existing legislation is insufficient to guard against these discriminatory practices, because, while they may protect religious groups themselves, they do not encompass all instances of religious intolerance, such as mockery or insults directed towards founders of religions, religious figures, or religious practices. If we are to defend and promote a diverse and open society, we must guarantee that these forms of defamation and marginalization are brought against the law. Haider bin Talal al-Mutanabbi Dux Oppositionis OOC: This should cover all religion equivalents: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6731 |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 365 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 385 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow official national flags of real-life nations or flags which are very prominent and recognisable (eg. the flags of the European Union, the United Nations, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or the Confederate States of America). |
| Random quote: "It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." - Joseph Goebbels |