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.Investment in Scottish talent.
The Scottish Christian Party supports investment in proven successful
sports, sports unique to Scotland, and pioneering sportsmen training in
Scotland. Scots men and women competing at the Olympic level and on
the world stage are ambassadors for Scotland and deserve financial and
promotional help. This should be a mutual benefit and there should be
some tangible manner of recognising the partnership, if it is sought by
individual sports people or establishments. The allocation of support to
tennis, golf and football should be transparent to fulfil the public’s
right to
know the allocation of the public purse.
The Scottish Christian Party will promote major international events
coming to Scotland as a means of promoting Scotland, our arts, our
sporting facilities, and homebred talent as well as being economically
beneficial to the country. We note the recent spiralling costs in staging
the Olympics in London. We believe that Scotland’s Commonwealth
Games bid plan should be linked to local regeneration in a similar manner
as the regeneration of the Docklands area of London helped to secure the
Olympics for London. There should be a clear vision of post-
Commonwealth Games transformation. Sites for regeneration should be
identified now which can be dovetailed to the likely timescale in the event
of Scotland’s Commonwealth Games bid being successful.
2. Minister for Gaelic and the Gaelic Heartlands
The Scottish Christian Party would emulate the Irish experiment of having
a minister for Gaelic and the Gaelic regions of the country, enabling policy
on the language to be linked to economic and social policy in these
peripheral regions.
3. Mind Pollution Levy on 18 Certificate Films, DVDs, CDs, Video
Games and Top Shelf magazines.
The Scottish Christian Party believes that the easy spread of pornography
through the media has a detrimental and costly effect upon the mental
health and social well being of Scotland’s citizens. This merits an
extra
levy on 18 and over Certificate films, DVDs, CDs, games and Top Shelf
magazines. We believe that immorality promotes an irresponsible and
unaccountable lifestyle, which expects society to pick up the bill. We
would consult local authorities on the feasibility of licensing retail outlets
that stock these items.
4. Arts Subsidy Restrictions
The Scottish Christian Party believes that our stretched financial resources
can be better spent than giving subsidies to non-Scottish based or
produced, new and recent stage productions. We support the removal of
these subsidies, as well as subsidies for already commercially successful
productions, such as West End shows on tour. We would reallocate these
subsidies to new Scottish talent, particularly to arts projects that help
the
nation recover knowledge of Scotland's rich Christian heritage – which
has
been downgraded and overlooked by successive administrations.
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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.
