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Bill: Religious Freedom in the Schools
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kundrati Revolutionary Movement
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: November 2035
Description[?]:
| The state has no business coercing anyone into following a particular religion. Teacher-led prayer is an infringement on the rights of all people to worship as they choose, made all the worse by the special coercive nature of the school environment and the young age of the people affected. |
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 in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Religious Freedom in the Schools |
| Message | Heresy! |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Religious Freedom in the Schools |
| Message | Please excuse my expression :Hell NO! |
| Date | not recorded | From | Kundrati Revolutionary Movement | To | Debating the Religious Freedom in the Schools |
| Message | Why would you want your children to be forced by their teachers to pray to the great god Atum who masturbated the world into existence? We just don't see the attraction. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Religious Freedom in the Schools |
| Message | "great god Atum who masturbated the world into existence?" You are mocking God this is low even for your party. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Kundrati Revolutionary Movement | To | Debating the Religious Freedom in the Schools |
| Message | That is not mockery. That was a deeply held religious belief for the Ancient Egyptians. And some of our constituents in the Kundar region are Ancient Egyptian revivalists who would be quite offended at your claim that their religious beliefs are mocking god. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Religious Freedom in the Schools |
| Message | “And some of our constituents in the Kundar region are Ancient Egyptian revivalists who would be quite offended at your claim that their religious beliefs are mocking god.” Let them be. You yourself say they are revivalists, God had made sure that their fake religion be turned to dust for their crimes against the Jewish people. You quote from the people that enslaved God’s people. Are you an anti-Semitic? It seems rather sad that you would propose such a bill when another one just like this Religious Liberty Act is still being voted in the senate. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Religious Freedom in the Schools |
| Message | It shouldn't be illegal for faculty and students to pray if they choose, but they should not be forced to. |
| Date | not recorded | From | none | To | Debating the Religious Freedom in the Schools |
| Message | This is not the time or place to argue about what archaeology tells us of the ancient Near East - that the Exodus and Joshua stories are not historically accurate, for example. And the reason we have put this bill up for a vote is that the "Religious Liberty Act" is a fraud. There is no religious liberty to be found in it. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Religious Freedom in the Schools |
| Message | ooc: Why is you name "removed"? |
| Date | not recorded | From | Kundrati Revolutionary Movement | To | Debating the Religious Freedom in the Schools |
| Message | I have no idea. I put it up to bugs in the system. |
| Date | not recorded | From |  Dorvik Social Democrats | To | Debating the Religious Freedom in the Schools |
| Message | Could be someone who had a duplicate account, or due to a bug. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 40 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 23 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
| Random quote: "Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity." - Albert Einstein |