The SNP leadership hopeful has defended her comments after prominent backers abandoned her campaign.
Finance Secretary Kate Forbes has sparked controversy with comments about equal marriage
The finance secretary, who was first elected to Holyrood in 2016 and has been on maternity leave, said she would have voted against gay marriage in Scotland when it was made legal in 2014 because it clashed with her views as a member of the Free Church of Scotland that marriage should be between a man and a woman., the Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch MSP denied her campaign had been irreparably damaged by the fallout.
She said: "My position on these matters is I will defend to the hilt everybody's right in a pluralistic and tolerant society to live and to love free of harassment and fear. Ms Forbes later told Times Radio that she "she regrets enormously the pain or hurt that has been caused" by her comments on gay marriage, adding that she had not intended to do so and that "I would seek forgiveness if that is how it's come across."Health Secretary Humza Yousaf backed gay marriage legislation at an early stage but was not present for the final vote
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