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Scottish National Party councillor attacks gays and atheists on air
Kenneth Gunn: 'Gays are sad.'
SNP councillor: gays "are really very sad people"
A Scottish National Party councillor launched a religious tirade against gays and atheists during a live BBC Radio Scotland phone-in show. On the Morning Extra programme, Kenneth Gunn, of Selkirk, said that "so-called" gays "are really very sad people" and that non-believers are "damned to hell".
The programme had invited callers to give their views on a controversial Bible exhibition at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art that featured an 'interactive' Bible intended to promote gay rights within Christianity. It was mounted on a stand with pens alongside and the message: "If you feel you have been excluded from the Bible, please write your way [in the margins] back into it."
Some Christian callers complained that some of the messages from gays and lesbians were obscene or abusive, but when asked by the presenter why the Bible should be respected by non-believers, Gunn replied: "Non-believers are damned to hell anyway, so why should we bother?". He was then asked if this was merely a difference of opinion and if people should be able to live together with mutual respect.
"I don't think so. Just look at where this country has gone over the last 40 or 50 years. When we all went to church on a Sunday morning and prayed to Jesus Christ, this was a much better country. Look where it's all going now. We've got so-called gays, who are really very sad people, and we have non-believers and heathens running the country and running down Christianity. It seems it is an offence to run down Islam, but not an offence to run down Christianity."
