John Mason's conversion therapy views are causing a dilemma on future vote
All of life (now 70) I have voted in every first-pass-the-post election for the SNP. I am not a party member; indeed, I am unhappy about being described as a nationalist. Simply put, I wish to live in a nation whose values are more progressive and humanitarian that those of the wreckage of the British Empire.
Mr Mason’s views on a woman’s rights over her body are not mine. His views on the tragedy in Palestine seem more appropriate for the Book of Revelations than the 21st century. And now this.
I cannot in all conscience vote for him in the next Holyrood election. I will not. I cannot vote for anyone who seeks to continue our deference to Westminster. I do not know what to do.
David Kelly
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