Scottish referendum on the agenda
Scottish referendum to be raise at the General Meeting of Friends
The forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence will be raised at next month’s General Meeting of Friends in Scotland. ‘One of the challenges in this debate and decision is where to begin’, Christine Davis writes in the current edition of the Scottish Friend. In the article she outlines some key background issues and invites Scottish Friends to consider a number of important questions before the General Meeting.
She highlights some issues that are of particular concern to Quakers, such as the position of the nuclear arsenal on the Clyde and NATO membership, and also raises the subject of the future relationship of Scotland to Britain Yearly Meeting. She writes: ‘Whatever the outcome, we will still be Friends; we will still belong to Britain Yearly Meeting, though it may have to relate to different jurisdictions as Ireland Yearly Meeting does today, and our values will remain a strong element of our communal life.’
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