The Scottish Conservatives announce they will fight the May 2003 Scottish Parliament elections on a 'family values' extremist platform
The Scottish Conservative Party has announced it plans to campaign on 'family values' and disdains any idea of some form of civil partnership for same-sex couples, declaring that they wish to do nothing to 'undermine' marriage. The party hierarchy wants to appeal, it seems, to its aged and dwindling membership by proposing retorgrade policies and to attract the same kind of voter who campainged unsuccessfully against the abolition in Scotland of Clause 2a (aka 'Section 28') which prohibited the 'promotion' of homosexuality and the teaching of the 'acceptability of homosexuality as a pretend family relationship.
You can read a lengthier article on this subject in my main website by clicking here, from which there is a link to an article in today's Scotsman newspaper (link to that article direct by clicking Scotsman).
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