Candidate for the leader of the SNP and first minister, Kate Forbes, who is a devout Christian and member of the evangelical Free Church of Scotland, has said she would have voted against the 2014 introduction of marriage equality in Scotland.
She explains that, despite this, she now respects current legislation.
Forbes is of course entitled to have religiously informed political views, and she was elected quite independently of them. But is the discrepancy between her support for the law as it stands and her actual personal beliefs something we could accept in a national leader?
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