Policy
The party states that its platform is based on the biblical standard of reconciliation, justice, compassion, tolerance, peace and the sanctity of life, the individual, the family and community.
With regard to the sanctity of life, they are fully pro-life but they are supportive of the death penalty for certain heinous crimes.
The ACDP was the only party to vote against the adoption of the final version of the South African Constitution, for reason that it enshrined abortion on demand and the specific protection of sexual orientation.
Its 2000 manifesto opposed the promotion of condoms and safe sex as a way of preventing HIV transmission: "The ACDP feel strongly that the condom campaign must be abandoned and that abstinence and faithfulness in marriage must be promoted." The party supports abstinence-only policy.
The group is opposed to maintaining the current age of consent, and implies that the reason it has not been raised is because so-called "aggressive homosexual activists" would be prevented from sleeping with young boys.
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