Kate Forbes has yet to throw her hat into the ring for the SNP leadership race, but already the campaign is underway to block her. As in last year’s election, when Forbes ran close against Humza Yousaf, she is being attacked for her religious beliefs and opposition to transgender ideology.
Forbes is being portrayed on social media as ‘the candidate for the 19th Century’
The SNP leadership is turning into another ‘witch hunt,’ according to the SNP MP Joanna Cherry. The reason? Forbes has the temerity to be a practicing Christian and a member of the deeply conservative Free Church of Scotland. She says she would not have voted for same-sex marriage in 2014 had she been an MSP. Nor would she now support the resurrection of Nicola Sturgeon’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill to allow 16-year-olds to change legal sex by Self-ID without a medical diagnosis.
Forbes’ putative rival, the former deputy First Minister John Swinney, has already questioned whether SNP supporters would vote for his rival given her ‘views’.
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