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Bill: Lex Ianuaria de Religionis Libertate
Details
Submitted by[?]: Factio Republicana Socialistica
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: February 4472
Description[?]:
| Ianuarian Law on Religious Freedom Senators. Our Republic has long had to deal with the dangerous and anti-Republican movement of religious extremism, a theocratic endeavor that aims to subvert the Republic and its democracy. The secular liberalism that emerged in opposition is not a solution, but rather makes matters worse. Instead of appealing to pluralism and neutrality between different conceptions of the good to counter religious extremism, we should instead promote our own alternative for positive conceptions of the good life. Instead of the impoverished liberal doctrine of the separation of church and state, we should instead institutionalize civic morality in order to strengthen popular sovereignty and combat corruption. Liberal neutrality, and its anti-democratic cousin virulent secularism, merely attacks or marginalizes the religious beliefs of the poor, instead of proposing a comprehensive understanding of the good life. In the Republican Party we know that neutrality is inadequate for promoting a virtuous citizenry and countering the vices of religious extremism, that in order to establishing popular sovereignty the existing religious preferences of the people must be protected and promoted, and that the hatred of religion exhibited by militant atheism is nothing but a mask covering aristocratic and bourgeois contempt for the poor. For these reasons we call for the reintroduction of legal protections and privileges granted to religious bodies in our Republic, including tax-exempt status for recognized religions, criminal penalties for public religious hate-speech, "moment of silence" legislation in our schools, and the payment of the salaries of ministers of religion from the Republic's budget. Mettius Ianuarius Senator |
Proposals
Article 1
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 are mandatory in schools.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are encouraged.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Current: Recognized religions are not taxed.
Proposed: Recognized religions are not taxed.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Remuneration of ministers of religion.
Old value:: The state does not intervene in the remuneration of ministers of religion.
Current: The salaries and pensions of ministers of religion shall be borne by the state and regulated by the law.
Proposed: The salaries and pensions of ministers of religion shall be borne by the state and regulated by the law.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change State penalties for blasphemy
Old value:: No state penalties are issued 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 | 22:50:59, October 18, 2018 CET | From | Clara Aurora - COSIRA | To | Debating the Lex Ianuaria de Religionis Libertate |
| Message | It goes without saying that In Marea is frontally opposed to this law that, disguised as democracy and rights, seeks to impose religious doctrine on all citizens, regardless of their personal beliefs. Helios Sigilis Dux Oppositionis |
| Date | 23:31:42, October 18, 2018 CET | From | Partis Communis Seluciae | To | Debating the Lex Ianuaria de Religionis Libertate |
| Message | Senators, The Pars Laborem will never stand for those laws that simply seek to drug the masses with religion and blind them to strife. We shall never stand wolves in sheep's clothing. Lastly, we shall never stand for religious institutions having any more power in this nation. Tiberius Gaius Diregere of The Pars Laborem |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 386 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 364 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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