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Scottish Election Special: more people to NOT vote for: The Scottish Christian Party
A few days ago I posted about the British National Party, and why they are ass-hats. Now I'm going to post about another group of people who, while not obviously mean-spirited, also need to take classes in rational thinking (rational thinking for THEMSELVES, I might add). Yes, today, while I was sitting around getting ready for my last exam, I got a phone call from good old Craig, who had received a mail shot from one of several loopy political parties who want our vote: the Scottish Christian Party, who, in their own words, are "Scotland's only Christian Bible-based political party", but actually in reality are better described as "Scotland's only Bible-based advert AGAINST Christianity".
 "Bible-based political party" should set off a warning light or two. I'm aware that, apparently especially so in the United States, it's fashionable to pretend that you enjoy reading that particular book, but it has all sorts of scary suggestions for how to live your life in it (as well as how to try and live other people's lives for them), as well as other things which are admittedly nice, which is a point worth considering if you believe that people aren't already nice anyway.
They're not REALLY bible-based in the strict sense, though. For example, none of the Scottish Christian Party's points relate to the good old examples of gluttony or eating shellfish, or avoiding women who are menstruating. It seems that "Bible-based" in this case means that, unsurprisingly, "we will back up our existing gripes against people or thing we don't like, using our special book". Rather than basing their party's manifesto on the nice things in life, the Scottish Christian Party seem to have concentrated on the murkier aspects of their religious history.
I'm not going to include all of the mail-shot here, but the general gist of it is thus:
- Part One: General information about the party
- Part Two: don't vote for the other people, because one of them is a campaigner for equality (how dare he!) and publicly ripped up a referendum ballot paper that suggested keeping an anti-gay law
- Part Three: also don't vote for this other guy, because he is also a Honorary Vice President of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Society [sic, it's the G.L.H. Association, actually].
- Part Four: vote for me, because I am a Reverend, and I am married, and I am a Christian, and I have two sons, AND I live in Glasgow, so there.
 What a load of complete shite. You can assume by visiting their web site (it's a laugh riot, take a look at the clip art they use on it, seriously) that these people might not be the sharpest tools in the box, but this mail-shot confirmed it. Seeing as Christianity is losing enough support in the United Kingdom as it is, you would expect that a party based on it would try to say some nice things rather than basing their operations around denying people equal rights. I decided to pen an open letter to the goons, informing them of the facts of modern-day life.
Dear The Scottish Christian Party:
Even in its subtler forms, homophobia, as well as being immature and twisted, does not do anyone any good. Combining it with religion (another thing that does not seem to do much good) creates a magnificent Bacardi Breezer-flavoured cocktail of stupidity, which means that you, my pious friends, are the brewers.
If you would like to see what homophobia and religion can do together to harm everybody, Google for information on Jamaica, a country that seems to have its fair share of religiously-inspired hatred against anyone who isn't a heterosexual. Oh yeah, and Jamaica also has an alarmingly high proportion of people, belonging to all sexual orientations, who have HIV/AIDS. AIDS in Jamaica is sidelined as "the gay disease", and since religious lunacy has made homosexuality a taboo, nobody says a word for fear of appearing homosexual, and the disease spreads and ends up biting everybody, not just the gays, in the ass.
This is a geographically distant example of why attitudes such as yours can wreak havoc if they are allowed to fester. As such I must thank you for giving me even more reasons NOT to vote for you.
Muchos gracias,
-Lyris
Most religious-based arguments against the existence of gay people (I'm laughing just typing this, it's that ridiculous) seem to be based around the argument that "it" is "unnatural". "Unnatural" is a trendy buzz-word for "different", and I believe "it" is a term that can mean any one or more of the following: people who both have the same type of sexual organs holding hands, people who both have the same type of sexual organs getting hot and steamy with one another, people who both have the same type of sexual organs. Wow, guys, seriously, who cares?
When you hear of the bloody, sticky mess that is child-birth, and heterosexual couples arguing over what brand of pump will best transfer milk out of the breast to enable time-shifted baby-feeding, people who preach against homosexual men because their most convenient sexual method involves the derrière, start to look more than just a little bit silly. As someone who barely has a sex drive worth mentioning, all I can do is look on in puzzled disbelief at the things that motivate people to stand in elections.
PS: other people who're reading in Scotland, when are the elections again? It's May 3rd, right?
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Muratcan
That is one shitty website the shitty SCP have there. Stupid Homophobics who use relegion as a barrier for their political ends. Fuck them anyway, the fact is they have a very miniscule support and they make themselves look like plonkers. Did I mention the website which seemed to have blinded me. Seriously how shit was that site.