Who exactly are the bigots here?

SNP leadership candidate, Kate Forbes, could face disciplinary action for saying a rapist is a man

So, that’s clear then. In Scottish politics you can believe anything you wish just so long as you don’t believe it. Kate Forbes and Humza Yousaf are both faith-based politicians whose religions disapprove of homosexuality, gay marriage and such like.  But Humza says he doesn’t believe what his religious texts require him to believe whereas Kate does. One is a hypocrite the other a true believer. Hypocrisy is clearly the default position of the political classes. Who’d have thought it?

Now I am an atheist through and through and I don’t have a dog in this fight. I am a pro-choice supporter of equal marriage and all things Kate Forbes disapproves of. However, as I listened to Good Morning Scotland showcasing a succession of nationalists and nationalist sympathisers all saying that in a “free and tolerant society” like Scotland she can believe what she wishes as long as it is the right belief it began to stick in my craw.

I’m not a nationalist but I think it is acceptable for people to believe in their country right or wrong. I don’t insist that nationalists should remounce this irrational belief before taking high office.

When I learned that people in the SNP were planning to have Forbes investigated, even disciplined, for transphobia, because she said the double rapist Isla Bryson is a man, I realised that this is no longer a political party but a witch hunt.

So why do I find myself sympathising with someone whose views abhor? Well it has a lot to do with Scotland’s 600,000 Catholics.