The Christian Party - is it conservative with a small or capital c. Am I also wrong to consider voting for a small pary to keep out BNP?

[flatcapandpearls]

I am doing my research before going down to cast my vote and have am watching all the election broadcasts.

I am always very dubious about religion and politics but as a commited Catholic I thought I would watch the broadcast

They say they believe in low taxes and a small government which sounds conservative with a capital c.

And I am still trying to get my head around PR, will I bet better off voting for a smaller party to keep BNP out? But if we are all doing that will it not backfire?

Damn I didn't realise they were anti-abortion. I was led by faith but alas poor choice...

I ahve just read some very worrying things about the scottish christian party that has made me decide against voting for them.

Lifted from manifesto:
We would reverse the incessant drive to get mothers into the formal
labour market and lobby Westminster for a tax and benefit system that
recognises the evidence that children brought up by a mother at home,
with a working father, have by far the ?best life chances?. working mother with father at home here.

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."

"The Scottish Christian Party believes that the provision of Christian
religious education should be mandatory, (with no obligation to promote
other faiths)" I teach RE and if I had to do this I would leave teaching
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?.

"Whilst recognising that in seeking to save the life of a mother the life of
her unborn child may be lost, the Scottish Christian Party would ask the
Scottish Parliament to request Westminster to either legislate to ban
abortion, or to make abortion a devolved matter."

"We will publicise the catastrophic effect of ungodly behaviour on the life
expectancy and health of people, whom God loves and we should love;particularly homosexuality"

This does not represent me at all I am off to vote green or labour.

flatcap are you sure you're not accidentally looking at a leaflet from 1936?

I'd be no happier voting for the SCP than I would the BNP. Both disgust me.

at the bit you quoted there twinset.

They are hideous.

Perhaps conservative in the 'old testament' sense then?

I am shocked but tbh not that surprised. I am a Christian and that does not reflect me or my values.

It's quite likely that Labour will lose their sole seat in the SW. Their polling figures are dreadful - they got only 14.5% last time - less than 11.3% would leave them with nothing this time, assuming the other parties don't change (although it's likely some of their support will go to the Lib Dems, who are traditionally strong in the SW).

Have voted anyway.

Sadly 'Christian' organisation with enough money to mount an election campaign is always going to mean 'woman-hating homophobic loons'. Because Christian organisations that are full of decent well-meaing non-bigots tend not to have the money to spare for electioneering as they spend it all on Good Causes.

True Solidgold.

i read it doesn't matter what you vote under Proportional representation - it removes the need for tactical voting

so any party that isn't BNP will be a vote 'against' them if you like.

it was one of those 'hope not hate' leaflets i think