Kate Forbes’ SNP leadership bid is dead and she only has herself to blame. In an astonishingly inept statement, the evangelical Christian said she would have opposed same sex marriage had she had been an MSP in 2014.
Claiming that having children outside of marriage is wrong also looks weird and judgemental. Members of a socially liberal, centre-left party such as the SNP will not elect a right-winger like Forbes. Her candidacy has become a joke.
Her justification for her hardline views will only further antagonise her growing list of critics. She claimed same sex marriage is a “conscience” issue, despite many people believing it is a fundamental question of human rights.
