Will Kate Forbes religious beliefs scupper her chances of becoming SNP leader?

 

Kate Forbes of the SNP

Kate Forbes, the SNP MP for Skye and Lochaber, who's standing to be the next leader of the SNP is one of the Wee Frees, Free Church of Scotland. The Wee Frees sing or chant the Psalms in church. These followers of John Knox and John Calvin, think that Scotland is on "a  Highway to Hell" with its support for gay marriage and abortion. They've already called on SNP MP, Ian Blachford, who is a member of the church, to repent for supporting SNP policies on gay marriage and abortion in Northern Ireland.

The Rev David Robertson, says that telling children that they can change their gender is "demonic ideology." Kate Forbes's religious views were well known and don't seem to have been a problem for her until she stood to be the SNP leader. It now seems that her conventional view of marriage and sex within marriage, are likely to put her at odds with progressives within the SNP, and could scupper her chances of becoming the next SNP leader. Unlike Nicola Sturgeon, Kate does at least know the difference between a man and a woman, or as they say in Scotland, cocks and wee hens.

They've put pressure on Kate Forbes to moderate or change her views, but up to now, she's stuck to her guns and has been honest about her religious belief. Her rival candidate, Humza Yousaf, says that though he's a Muslim, he won't let his religious belief influence policy and he believes in diversity and same-sex marriage. He was once prosecuted for driving without insurance. At the time of his prosecution, he was the Scottish Transport Minister. The other candidate to be SNP leader is Ash Regan. She resigned over the Scottish Gender Reform Bill.  

Kate Forbes believes that sex outside marriage is a sin. At one time being borne illegitimate, or out of wedlock, was a dreadful cross to bear for a child. Although children had no choice in the matter, they were often taunted and called Bastards and stigmatized. 

The Welshman, John Rowlands, also known as Sir Henry Morton Stanley, was an illegitimate working-class child, who was put in the workhouse. He later emigrated to the USA and became a famous journalist and explorer, but he was always careful, to conceal his parentage, so he changed his name. 

In Dickens's day, middle-class people with money, would dump bastard children in the Yorkshire Schools and forget them.  Dickens knew that many of these children had died of neglect and malnutrition and he sought to expose it. In his novel Nicholas Nickleby, the physically abused boy called Smike, is used to illustrate the brutality that went on in schools like Dotheboys Hall which is run by the sadistic Wakford Squeers. Smike, it later turns out, is the illegitimate son of Ralph Nickleby, Nicholas's uncle.  

And what did Jesus Christ say to the mob, that were just about to stone a woman to death for adultery: "He who is without sin, cast the first stone." Very wise words indeed. Kate Forbes should take heed. Today, the word bastard means nothing, and good riddance to it. In Britain today, the majority of live births (51.3%), were to none married couples. You might say that Britain today is now a nation of BASTARDS!