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Bill: Secularist Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: AM Populist Social Democrats
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: April 2346
Description[?]:
| Whereas, Some provisions that have become law are just plain deplorable, and amount to State endorsement of religion, and Whereas, We know that for a long time not only the Likatonian people but the majority of politicians have opposed active promotion of religion, We hereby propose to move towards separation of church and state in at the two of the areas we find most egrigious and think other parties may as well: The outright encouragement of-- not even neutrality toward-- foreign missionaries, and prayer in public schools that is not left, let us note, to local governments, but to teachers and/or principals who might wish to impose, using government funds, their religious views on students. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: Foreign missionaries are welcomed and encouraged by the government.
Current: The government determines which missionaries are permitted to visit on a person by person basis.
Proposed: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Article 2
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 | 21:10:27, January 17, 2007 CET | From | Permissive Social Union | To | Debating the Secularist Act |
| Message | The PCA thanks all parties who opposed this attack on religious freedom. |
| Date | 22:42:42, January 18, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Secularist Act |
| Message | One wonders about the rights of the rationally secular majority who would prefer to send their children to public schools where they will not be indoctrinated. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 60 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 139 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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