I am going to start this week’s column by saying this: Perthshire Pride’s Philip Ross shouldn’t have said what he did about “painful death” in messages to the Scottish Family Party.

It goes back to what we were taught as children – you don’t need to say everything you think out loud (or, in this case, type and send), particularly when you serve on the board of an event that is already marginalised and targeted by bigots.

It was also a stupid thing to do because it gave the peripheral political party what it wanted.

People like that love nothing more than to be able to cry victim and talk about how mean those who are against them are.

The Scottish Family Party’s own policies highlight their hypocrisy

However, it’s a bit rich coming from an organisation whose members stand outside hospitals and loom over women going for abortions with placards about killing unborn babies.

I looked at the Scottish Family Party website the other day to understand what it is that they actually stand for because if you just read the headlines it’s anti-LGBT, anti-abortion, pro-nuclear family.

And I’ll give them their due, it’s more........

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