Is It Time to Put Your Cross by the Cross? Minority Report Minority Report Tom Shields Continues His Journey Along the Election Fringes, Pondering Whether to Put His Faith in Rival Christian Parties or a Jacobite Trio

Sunday Herald › April 17, 2007

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THERE are two Christian parties vying for votes in the Holyrood elections. In days of yore it might have been easy, in a Scottish way, to label them the Catholic Christian and the Protestant Christian parties. It is much more complicated than that. The Christian People's Alliance (CPA) claims the personal endorsement of Bishop Joseph Devine and has many members who are Catholic activists.

But also to be found in the CPA ranks are Muslims, Jews, Protestants of many stripes, and people of no faith who are attracted by the party's emphasis on family values.

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Is It Time to Put Your Cross by the Cross? Minority Report Minority Report Tom Shields Continues His Journey Along the Election Fringes, Pondering Whether to Put His Faith in Rival Christian Parties or a Jacobite Trio

As is the fashion, the name on the ballot paper will appear as Christian People's Alliance leader Teresa Smith.

But there is no cult of personality. St Teresa's, the church she attends in Dumfries, is not actually named after her.

The CPA could equally have been called the ...

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