Just a reminder – don’t vote ‘Conservative’ in May!
As a former member of the Conservative Party, I watch with interest what it is up to. The latest outrage concerns Scottish parliamentary candidate for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, John Smart, who has described homosexuality as "morally wrong” and called for the banning of gay pride marches, which he considers "absolutely abhorrent".
Of course, if Mr Smart had made the same kinds of comments about racial or ethnic minorities, or women for that matter, he would rightly have been condemned, even (one imagines) by the Conservative Party. It says a great deal about the real position of the Conservative Party on equality issues that it is willing to allow a parliamentary candidate standing under its name, and who holds such views, to continue to operate under its auspices. If this is what being a ‘broad church’ means, then I want no part of it. Read the full story in this Scotland on Sunday article.
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