How can Davidson lobby for same-sex marriage and still claim to be Christian?
Ruth Davidson (The Scotsman, 1 July) is now putting pressure on the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and personally lobbying Arlene Foster so that same-sex marriage can be imposed upon Northern Ireland.
In this she is joined unsurprisingly by the other leaders of Scotland’s political parties. The SNP’S Christina Mckelvie, convener of the Scottish Parliament’s equalities and human rights committee, calls the DUP “dinosaurs”. Does she realise that there are politicians in her own party who do not support SSM? Is Ruth Davidson saying that the many Tories who don’t support SSM are no longer welcome in the Tory party?
I wonder if Mckelvie and Davidson regard the leader of the free world (Merkel, not Trump – who ironically on this issue would agree with our “progressives”) as a “dinosaur” because she voted last week against SSM and declared that marriage is between a man and a woman?
When SSM was passed we were all categorically assured that this was something permissive and would not be enforced upon others. At the time, the late Gordon Wilson and I warned that this was being passed hastily without due thought and consideration and would quickly lead to the marginalisation and demonisation of those who held to a traditional Christian view of marriage.
Although we were laughed at, called extremists and told this would never happen, it appears that within a couple of years we have been proved right. In the words of one BBC journalist “disagreeing with same sex marriage is not in line with acceptable opinion”.
Ruth Davidson likes to play the Christian card when discussing this: “I am a practicing Christian” she writes – as though this were somehow a justification for imposing her social/sexual views on the rest of us. I’m not exactly sure what she means. Does it mean that she is a follower of Jesus Christ, who taught that marriage was between a man and a woman? Does she think Jesus was a “dinosaur”?
Meanwhile, those of us who follow his teaching will continue to do so – even when our elites tell us it is “not acceptable opinion” and threaten us. Is Ruth Davidson really telling us that the Christian Church throughout the ages, the Catholic Church in Scotland today, the growing evangelical churches and up until this year, her own church, have got it all wrong?
I realise that our political leaders are prone to hubris, but even they should beware of claiming to know better than Jesus!
DAVID ROBERTSON St Peters Free Church, Dundee No wonder people are disgusted with politics and have no faith in our political leaders.
The Scotsman of Saturday was typical as we read of our leader’s keenness to become involved in Irish politics, calling for the acceptance of samesex “marriage”.
How I wish they would get on with the day job and concentrate on our own mess instead of letting personal views dictate their political inputs and energy.
JAMES WATSON Randolph Crescent, Dunbar