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Bill: IFP religious initiative: soft approach
Details
Submitted by[?]: Ikradonian Faith Party
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: October 2241
Description[?]:
| We withhold two articles of our doomed-to-be-voted-down religious package and hope the Assembly will at least agree to these two provisions. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards the cloning of human beings.
Old value:: Research in cloning technologies is legal, but regulated.
Current: Research in cloning technologies is legal, but regulated.
Proposed: The cloning of human beings is illegal.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The state's policy concerning religious clothing.
Old value:: Public officials are not allowed to wear religious symbols while exercising their duties.
Current: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Proposed: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:35:38, June 09, 2006 CET | From | Zapatista Freedom Party | To | Debating the IFP religious initiative: soft approach |
| Message | No to 1. |
| Date | 00:41:32, June 10, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the IFP religious initiative: soft approach |
| Message | We find this bill to be agreeable and will vote in favour. |
| Date | 03:55:52, June 10, 2006 CET | From | Iqembu Sokusebenzisana Yeningi | To | Debating the IFP religious initiative: soft approach |
| Message | The IPC, assembled in Congress, voted on whether to support this bill. While a significant faction opposed the anti-cloning provision, this faction did not carry the day. The supporters of the bill in the IPC are mostly ambivalent on the cloning issue. In accordance with the resolution of the Congress, all IPC legislators will support this bill. |
| Date | 04:48:20, June 14, 2006 CET | From | Lyika ati Isọdọtun | To | Debating the IFP religious initiative: soft approach |
| Message | We support the continuation of cloning research, and we believe it is appropriate to require public officials to refrain from wearing religious symbols while exercising state duties. Insofar as such officials are representatives of the state, they should present the state as the secular entity which it is. When they are off-duty, they are free to present themselves as they see fit. |
| Date | 12:38:28, June 14, 2006 CET | From | Zapatista Freedom Party | To | Debating the IFP religious initiative: soft approach |
| Message | Let it be known we do not support one, but feel article 2 is more important, thus we have voted in afavour overall. We will set about trying to fix the passed article 1. |
| Date | 21:47:30, June 14, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Conservative | To | Debating the IFP religious initiative: soft approach |
| Message | I believe human cloning or least the resulting research and medical benefits make banning it a shortsighted measure, as much could be learned. However I am in favour of allowing religious symbols and clothing to be worn by public officials as religion does not define who you are or necessarily how you carry out your job. I myself am an atheist but an neither threatened nor offended by the demonstration of faith, especially in the harmless wearing of religious clothing. I would recommend voting on these issues separately as they have nothing to do with each other and I expect that many people would have support of one and not the other. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 314 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 249 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 36 |
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