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Bill: Secular Education Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberté et Égalité
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: July 4485
Description[?]:
| Recognizing the personal freedom to choose one's religion and ideology Considering children as free and equal subjects of law before the law Understanding that children find in the school a place of development for their own ideas and the defense of their rights. 2. Every person is free to not accept to participate in prayers or religious activities imposed by an institution, without there be any sanction for it 3. Institutional imposition of religious practices is prohibited for any student who is affiliated with it |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Any religion may set up a school, with no regulations.
Current: Religious schools are not allowed.
Proposed: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:59:02, November 14, 2018 CET | From | Liberté et Égalité | To | Debating the Secular Education Act |
| Message | With this new legislation, there will be freedom to form religious schools, but not indoctrination. This legislation will limit indoctrination to children of the confederation. Let the children have a free development in a more open and plural society that establishes its own priorities in this. Kecskés Joonas Erkki |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 165 | |
| no | Total Seats: 251 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 179 |
| Random fact: Cabinet ministers who disagree seriously with the head of government would usually be expected to resign. Parties within the cabinet may attempt to manoeuvre to replace the head of government though, for example by proposing a new cabinet bill or voting for an early election. |
| Random quote: "Democracy is in peril." - Ralph Nader (referring to turnout in the 1996 US presidential election) |