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Bill: Religious freedom act.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Permissive Social Union
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: April 2345
Description[?]:
| Clearly the last election - and the result for the PCA - has demonstrated that there is a mandate for change. With the new convocation, we ask for consideration for the following reforms. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Current: The government determines which missionaries are permitted to visit on a person by person basis.
Proposed: Foreign missionaries are welcomed and encouraged by the government.
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: Wearing religious clothing or religious symbols in public is illegal.
Proposed: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Remuneration of ministers of religion.
Old value:: The salaries and pensions of ministers of religions shall be regulated by the law, but shall be borne by the religious communities themselves.
Current: The state does not intervene in the remuneration of ministers of religion.
Proposed: The state does not intervene in the remuneration of ministers of religion.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Current: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Proposed: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:49:53, January 14, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Religious freedom act. |
| Message | Prayers in public schools are beyond abhorrent. That is government endorsement of religion. And ministers who con their flock into buying them palaces, thinking they can buy their way into heaven...you have no problem with that either, we suppose. And then you want to welcome foreign missionaries to come in and attempt to convert Likatonians to new and barbaric superstitious beliefs? Horrendous. |
| Date | 13:58:03, January 14, 2007 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Religious freedom act. |
| Message | The LITP would support these measures, but will go no further... |
| Date | 12:15:54, January 15, 2007 CET | From | Permissive Social Union | To | Debating the Religious freedom act. |
| Message | In response to the PLPoL: Prayers in Public school, are, we beleive a matter for the communities that utilise those schools. We arent legislating that they are mandatory, we are empowering the local communities to make decisions in this area. We beleive that the state has no place in dictating the wages of any minister of religion. To do so places the renumeration in the control of an external agency to the Church, while ministers will receive a fair wage under this benevolent government, a future less benevolent government might decide to reduce the wages down to almost nothing. As far as allowing foreign ministers into Likatonia - this will simply allow a free flow of religious ideas, and ideals across our borders. The state cannot and should not protect people from making an informed decision about religion |
| Date | 14:52:30, January 15, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Religious freedom act. |
| Message | Note that you are not just allowing the foreign missionaries; you are *encouraging* then. You are saying not that "we accept your freedom to come" (although we are even against that) but you are saying that "We WANT you to come." There is something particularly insulting to me about foreign missionaries' pushing their religions on us, as if we were backwards and their country were superior. Prayers in public schools means that nonreligious people are paying for religious indoctrination in schools. We accept the rights of people to hold religious beliefs and practice them. However, we feel that they are harmful to the individuals who hold them and thus believe we are best off discouraging them, while respecting freedom of people to hold them if they must-- much like we believe in allowing recreational drug use but we would do our best to persuade people not to use anything more dangerous than marijuana. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 139 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 60 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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