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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1. Equalities Legislation
The Bible teaches, “For there is no partiality with
God.” (Roman
2:11 cf.
Act 10:34); therefore the Scottish Christian Party is
against prejudice in
all its guises, and takes breaches of equalities
legislation very seriously.
The Scottish Christian Party believes that the
criminalisation of equalities
offences will give more proportionate protection for
victims of prejudice,
as well as protection for those innocent persons that might
otherwise be
targeted for pernicious litigation on the basis of their
faith or other
reasons that are void of criminal intent.
With this in mind the Scottish Christian Party calls for
breaches in
equalities legislation, including the Sexual Orientation
Regulations (see
Section 2. below), to become ‘criminal’
offences rather than ‘civil’
offences. Thus in cases of alleged breaches in
equalities
legislation criminal levels of proof and evidence would be
necessary, and
legal actions would fall under the auspices of the
Procurator Fiscal rather
than private individuals, pressure groups, quangos, etc.
The Scottish Christian Party will seek to achieve this aim
by way of the
“Reverse Sewell’ process which allows the
Scottish Parliament,
with the
approval of the United Kingdom Westminster Parliament, to
introduce
legislation that enters the scope of United Kingdom
Law.
2. Sexual Orientation Regulations
Along with the majority of Christian and other faith
community leaders,
the Scottish Christian Party believes that the Sexual
Orientation
Regulations not only discriminate against the rights of
individual
conscience, but are an unprecedented and ominous imposition
of
immorality by the state on the people of Scotland.
The Scottish Christian Party believes that respect for
conscience, which
has served as a bulwark against tyranny, has been
dangerously discarded
by New Labour and must be urgently restored and
defended.
3. Criminal Justice
The Scottish Christian Party recognises the Christian
constitutional
foundation of the country, as set out in the Monarch's oath
of allegiance
and the Act of Union 1707. We would promote biblical
alternatives to the
current criminal justice system, reducing the number of
prisoners in our
overcrowded prisons, including extending parental
responsibility to
compensate the victims of juvenile crime and holding a
referendum on
reintroducing the death penalty, for murder, where there
are at least two
human witnesses in addition to whatever forensic evidence
is available.
4. Zero Tolerance on drug possession.
The Scottish Christian Party will promote a zero tolerance
approach
towards drug possession, and prohibit the current police
strategy of nonarrest
for possession for personal use. The Scottish Christian
Party
recognises that any business, including the illegal drugs
trade, relies on
demand to survive. The current supply-sided approach that
focuses only
on drug dealers will never work if the demand side is not
simultaneously
tackled in a robust way, using a range of alternative
punishments rather
than prison sentences.
5. Elected Fire and Police Chiefs
The Scottish Christian Party will campaign for Chief
Constables and Chief
Fire Officers, to be elected by the community that they
serve, in order to
bring greater public accountability.
6. Evidence and Restorative Justice
The Scottish Christian Party would seek to replace the
standard of
'beyond reasonable doubt' with the more biblical 'evidence
of two or three
reliable witnesses', reducing the tendency for the guilty
to evade justice.
We would also support the imposition of large financial
penalties, on
convicted criminals, to properly compensate victims of
crime and to
reimburse damage done to the community.
7. The Right to Evangelise and Preach in the Public
Square/on
Public Streets
The Scottish Christian Party is alarmed at the curtailing
of free speech in
the form of inhibiting street preaching and personal
evangelism. It will
defend and affirm the right to publicly preach the good
news of salvation,
love and everlasting life in Jesus Christ.
The Scottish Christian Party does not support the claim
that we have a
right to give offence, but since the Macpherson Report has
re-defined
racism in subjective terms, ‘taking offence’
has become as important
as
giving offence. Criminalising a person for someone’s
subjective taking
offence, when possibly no offence was intended, will prove
to be
unworkable, and will itself contribute to louder and louder
protests at
being offended by disparate groups. This new criminal
offence will only
stoke up charges and counter-charges of being offended by
each other’s
speech and way of life. Those who can shout loudest and
make most use
of the judicial system will prevail. This is not the sort
of society the
Scottish Christian Party wishes to promote.
8. Mini-Brothels and Prostitution Tolerance
Zones
The Scottish Christian Party will resist all attempt to
make prostitution
socially acceptable through so-called ‘tolerance
zones’ and will
seek to
reverse the decision to allow mini-brothels. Prostitution
allows women, in
particular, to be abused and enslaved in such a manner that
has no place
in Scottish society.
9. Prisons
The Scottish Christian Party believes that the much needed
extra prison
capacity should be purchased from developing countries for
the purpose
of catering for Scotland’s medium Security Prisons.
This should take
the
form of building state of the art prison facilities in
developing countries
that wish to host Scottish Prisons.
Advantages would include:
1. Less overcrowded prisons, cheaper costs and greater
efficiency.
2. More resources at home to look after our worse offenders
properly
3. More economic trade instead of aid handouts to
developing
countries
4. Raising prison standards in developing countries by
example and
the provision of expertise.
10. Curfew for the under 11’s
In light of the alarming rise in abduction, abuse and
murder of children,
the increase in juvenile crime, the unprecedented levels of
alcohol abuse
and drug use amongst the young, the Scottish Christian
Party would seek
mandatory intervention of child protection agencies in
relation to any
child 10 years or younger that is found unaccompanied on
the street after
9:00pm. We believe that this would have far reaching
benefits to the
lives of our young, protecting them from the dangers that
lurk in the
streets at night. It would also encourage the rebuilding of
the traditional
family structure and the parent-child relationship.
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• Christian Constitution of
Scotland: The Scottish Christian Party
highlights the irresponsible failure of the SNP to say what
will happen to the Christian Constitution of Scotland if the
Treaty of Union 1707 is broken.
The Scottish public deserves
to know this before an Election in which the pundits
think the SNP may form the next administration; but the SNP has
not addressed the question publicly far less provided any
answers.
• Education: To give real choice we
will campaign for an Educational Voucher Scheme, sex education
on a parental opt-in basis, a daily act of Christian worship
with Bible reading, and no obligation to promote other
faiths.
Creationism and Intelligent Design will be
considered alongside Evolution in science classes.
• Economic Development: Less
reliance on fossil fuels, with increased emphasis on
self-sustainability. Investment in new nuclear
plants must be matched by investment in research and
development for nuclear waste solutions.
Explore the
potential of water export, and effective extraction of North
Sea oil with infrastructure designed to be adapted afterwards
for marine renewable projects.
• Housing: Affordable housing earmarked as Local Family Housing.
• Gambling: Opposition to super casinos.
• Elected Police & Fire chiefs: The role of the Police and Fire Service does not involve marching in uniform, or handing out leaflets, at Gay parades. We believe they should be maintaining law and order impartially, and fighting fires. Electing chiefs will ensure accountability.
• Freedom of conscience, of speech and of public preaching: We will address the imbalance in law concerning giving and taking offence, and the oppressive emphasis in diversity training.
• Drugs: Zero tolerance on illegal drugs.