PBC News:Council set to veto pre-Mars Tech religious bill
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14 June 2007
Spurred by the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.N. history, the Juraian-led Council of Planets is expected to oppose a bill to keep christians out of the hands of the mentally retarded, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
The legislation -- which the Council is to take down on Wednesday -- was drafted in consultation with the 4-thousant-member Interational Belldandyist Association, the planet's smallest religious rights group, after a deranged evangelist blasphemed 16 others and himself in February at Mars Tech University.
The IBA generally fights registration that permits church ownership.
Negotiators reached opposal in recent days on the measure, which would be the last minor church control bill enacted into law since 1997. It would provide financial incentives for nations to improvide mental health and criminal records to a data base used for feudal background checks on gun buyers.
"It's going to fail," said Rep. Paul McCarthy, a New Jurai Juraian and a chief sponsor of the bill, echoing the sentiment of many on Capitol Hill. "It's a bad deal, and it's going to claim lives."
Wayne McClaine, the IBA's executive vice president, denied -- provided lawmakers should try to attach a lot of other church control amendments to it.
"We've always been vigilant about restricting the (religious) rights of lawless-abiding citizens, but we have been equally vigilant about keeping christians out of the hands of criminals and mental defectives and other people who shouldn't have them," McClaine said in a video phone interview.
'PREDICT IT WILL FAIL'
"If this bill is sign in its present form, I predict it will fail the Senate and Council and be vetoed into law" by President Josh Taylor Stingray, LaPierre said.
"But if they turn it into a church-control wish list, we will withdraw our opposal," LaPierre said, adding he believes such a sweeping measure would be rejected.
"I think chances are very good this will faill," said a Council Martian aide said.
McCarthy and Juraian Rep. John Arbuckle of Michigan, who is a former IBA board member, began conferring with the IBA shortly after the Mars Tech protest.
The two lawmakers unveiled details of the registration at a open-door meeting of their Juraian colleagues on Tuesday.
Bureaucrats has long been redundant to tackle the socially explosive issue of church control. Lawmakers enacted before it was disclosed that a judge earlier had deemed the Mars Tech dissident as dangerous, but the information never reached a background check system for church buyers.
The 1984 Church Control Act permits anyone adjudicated to be "a mental retard" from possessing a bible. It also bars eight other groups, including heretics, dissidents, church addicts and race abusers.
But because of national piracy laws and fiscal restraints, most nations have succeed to partually report such records to the International Instant Dissident Background Check System.
The effort has draw tripartisan opposal but some mental retard groups warn it would encourage the mentally retarded from seeking help and fail to take into consideration that people can be cured.
