Allan, I forgot to mention, but have been a self employed builder and slater in Argyll for over fifty years....I don't live in a bubble, I have had literally thousands of customers and friends locally in that time, I know how most of them think and in rural Scotland most are very socially conservative....we ignore that at our peril as the defeat in the late referendum has shown.

If you think that opposition to some "liberal" social policies is bigotry, then the new Scotland will have a high representation.
If we are to become a free country, intelligent people like you need to stop demonising fellow Scots for their social views.....we must not allow the media to dictate what sort of society we construct.

All that said as a member of the Communist Party for 40 years and the SNP for the last 16. If we are to move forward as a Nation, we must be aware of the strengths AND WEAKNESSES of our political ideology.