STV interview with Scottish Christian Party Leader
29 April 2011
The Leader of the Scottish Christian Party was interviewed by STV’s political editor Bernard Ponsonby about the Party’s Manifesto for the 2011 Scottish Election.
In the last of a series of interviews with political party leaders, Dr Donald Boyd told the Face-to-Face programme that the SCP presents the Scottish public with a balanced mix of the best attributes of the major parties along with the benefit of Christian values.
He began by thanking the STV for its vision in its live interviewing of the minor party leaders and thus stealing a march on the BBC from whose hustings the minor parties had been excluded. Over 70% of Britain identified themselves as Christians in the last census so that there are enough Christians in all the Regions of Scotland to return an MSP from each of the eight Regions.
Ponsonby drew attention to the wide breadth of subject matter covered on the SCP website. When he suggested that the SCP had not been very successful, Dr Boyd contradicted this assessment which has been analysed here. At the last election, the SCP in the Highlands and Islands beat ten other minor parties, all of which have been in existence longer.
He mentioned that the homosexual agenda for the next Scottish Parliament is to push beyond equality in order to force Christians to say that their homosexual lifestyle is acceptable. He highlighted that the SNP have not said what would happen to the Christian constitution of Scotland in an independent Scotland and he suggested that it would be a secular constitution. He appealed to Christians to consider the implications of an independent Scotland, and that if Alex Salmond is returned as First Minister then he considers it to be a mandate for independence although this fundamental matter has not been addressed.
The SCP election slogan is “Put your cross by the Cross”.
