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A Christian Voice in Holyrood

The Scottish Christian Party believes the country needs a distinctly Christian Voice in the Scottish Parliament and, by God’s grace, it is possible to do so.

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Membership Form Side 2 (pdf) (includes Statement of Faith)

Donation Form (pdf)

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1. Choice
The Scottish Christian Party believes that the biblical injunction to “train
up a child in the way he should go…” (Proverbs 22:6) is of critical
importance and relevance to the well being of Scotland; both now and in
the future. The rising tide of humanist secular fundamentalism in schools
in Scotland has meant that the choice of education in line with parental
beliefs and wishes is increasingly difficult to come by. Nowhere is this
more so than within the Christian community.
The Scottish Christian Party believes that parents – not the state – should
set the agenda for their children’s education, within educational
parameters designed to prepare children for a positive contribution to
Scottish society. For this to occur greater choice is required.
At present only the rich can afford to make such choices, as fees of up to
£25,000 per annum are out of the range of most people.
The Scottish Christian Party will seek the introduction of an Education
Voucher Scheme in Scotland, where voucher funding would follow a child.
This would enable parents to spend the amount of money the government
spends on each state school pupil (approx. £5,500 p.a.) at a school of
their choice, provided the annual fees for that school were no more than
115% of the value of the voucher. Thus the voucher could not be used to
subsidise a place at an expensive private school, but could, for example,
go into a school being set up by parents, a charitable foundation, a
church, or be applied to the cost of home schooling.

2. Sex Education
The Scottish Christian Party will call for sex education classes to be given
only to children on a parental opt-in basis. The Scottish Christian Party
will fight for the promotion in school of chastity before marriage, and
faithfulness in marriage, as the safest sexual practice, as and when sex
education is taught.
The Scottish Christian Party will also call for the re-instatement of Section
2A, thus calling for the end of the promotion and “the teaching in any
maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended
family relationship."

3. Faith
The Scottish Christian Party will seek to re-introduce corporate readings
from the Bible in all Scottish state schools, thus reflecting the Christian
constitutional foundation of Scotland, as set out in the Monarch's oath of
allegiance and the Act of Union 1707.
The Scottish Christian Party believes that the provision of Christian
religious education should be mandatory, (with no obligation to promote
other faiths), the history curriculum should reflect Scotland's rich
Christian heritage and the science curriculum reflect the evidence of
creation/design in the universe.

4. Discipline
The Scottish Christian Party would allow schoolteachers to use reasonable
force to maintain discipline in schools. The Scottish Christian Party would
allow schools to elect to use supervised corporal punishment as a
“punishment of last resort”.

5. Further Education
The Scottish Christian Party would link the funding of university courses
to the medium and long-term needs of society and the economy. We
would also seek to promote vocational training as equally vital to a
modern economy. The Scottish Christian Party is fundamentally opposed
to the concept of student debt as a means of funding student education
and would seek to reverse this trend.