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The End of ‘Sunday Post Scotland’

December 2, 2011
The End of ‘Sunday Post Scotland’ Gerry Hassan The Scotsman, December 2nd 2011 The SNP Government now finds itself at the onset of what looks like a cultural war with religious organisations on the subject of same-sex marriage. The Church of Scotland has now come out against gay marriage, joining the Catholic Church, Muslim community and ‘Scotland for Marriage’. To observers this has all the hallmark of Section 28/Clause 2a where the then Scottish Executive of Donald Dewar and Wendy Alexander incurred the wrath of Brian Souter and others on the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in schools. It isn’t the

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