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It’s not about personal beliefs. It’s about alienating all of the LGBT+ community when you’re running for the highest job in the country, supposedly representing all of us.

If they’re private and personal beliefs - and they won’t affect how you do your job - then shut up about it and keep them private. If you choose to share them publicly during a leadership race, I’m gonna suspect you can’t keep the two separated and I will not to support you based on that. 🤷🏻‍♂️ #SNPLeadershipRace #KateForbes

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It’s all a big gaslighting exercise. Has anyone stopped to think why LGBT+ ppl do not trust devout religious ppl in positions of power? It’s not like history hasn’t shown us time and time again that first opportunity we’ll be thrown under the bus. This false victimisation is bullshit. Religious ppl are far from being oppressed. It’s deflection from their constant oppression of minorities as a default. They’ve never atoned for their mistakes in the past and we won’t just ‘get over it’.
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Peter Tatchell was doxxed, threatened, insulted, accused of pedophilia, sustained over 100 physical assaults in a 16 month period by people’s “personal beliefs”, as the first out gay man running for MP.

Kate Forbes was asked some uncomfortable questions.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/20/peter-tatchell-berondsey-by-election-1983-gay-mp/

Peter Tatchell on his brutal 1983 bid to become Britain’s first out gay MP: ‘Like living through war’

Forty years on, Peter Tatchell reflects on the shocking homophobia he was subjected to as a candidate in the Bermondsey by-election.

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Feb 24, 2023 at 4:51pmWeb