Persecuting Kate Forbes

May 1, 2024 by Jill

by David Robertson, Christian Today:

It’s happening again. After the demise of Humza Yousaf as Scottish First Minister and with perverse predictability, the witch-hunt within Scotland’s wokerati is on again. It’s time for the ‘Anyone but Kate’ campaign because while it appears that having a Muslim First Minister is something to be celebrated, a Scottish Christian Presbyterian in Bute House is to be feared, sneered at and viciously mocked.

The Daily Record’s Political Editor, Paul Hutcheon, kicked off with claims that voting for Kate Forbes would be voting for the ‘candidate of the 19th Century’ or ‘one of those awful right-wing Republicans in the US’. Such chronological snobbery and political illiteracy is sadly not unexpected from some political journalists, although thankfully not all – the impeccably left-wing Kevin McKenna of the Herald, Guardian and National has actually consistently condemned the anti-Christian bigotry of his fellow journalists.

This week, however, it reached a new low with a bitter, hateful, and ignorant hit piece of invective from Times journalist Kenny Farquharson. It was so shocking that even avowed political opponents and atheists have whispered how shocking it is (of course such is the current poisonous atmosphere in Scotland that they dare only whisper). Because the article is behind a paywall, I will quote extensively from it here, but suffice to say it is badly written, astonishingly incoherent, historically illiterate, and full of dishonest hate speech. So, let’s dive into these murky waters.

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Read also: Whoever leads Scotland next, it can’t be Kate Forbes by Kenny Farquharson, The Times