Remember Tom Forrest and his good lady? They own a family guesthouse in the Scottish Highlands and ran afoul of some homosexual activists last July.
Last July Stephen Nock, a homosexual living in London, tried to book a room with double bed for himself and his boyfriend at a “Bed & Breakfast” in the wild and mountainous North-West of Scotland. Now, the b&b – Cromasaig in Kinlochewe, Wester Ross – is a family home. The owners, Liz and Tom Forrest, didn’t want that kind of trade. Renting a double bed to two homosexuals entailed a certain complicity in an act which Liz and Tom saw as a perversion. And that is what Tom perhaps somewhat bluntly said to Mr Nock in an e-mail extending his hospitality if the two homosexuals settled for a twin-bed room.
Evidently, Mr Nock didn’t appreciate the offer because the result, in Tom’s words, was that in no time he got “stitched up”. Homosexual political activists and a prurient press began to shit upon him from a very great moral height.
A weak man would have buckled. Tom Forrest is not a weak man. When he was accused of homophobia he replied, “I have no hatred or fear of poofs. I just do not approve of unnatural acts being performed in my home.” Even when a woman from the National Tourism Board of Scotland arrived to re-educate him - Cromasaig was listed on its website so presumably she thought she had a duty to do so – he remained true to his down-to-earth principles.
Well Tom is not only not weak, he is fiercely independent of mind and industrious, too. He and, one must suppose, some like-minded, sturdy Scots of conventional taste and good conscience have launched a website pointedly titled Normal Scotland. Well, quite. So far there are fifteen or so normal Scots hoteliers listed there, which looks like a pretty good beginning.
Every social conservative, every libertarian, everyone who despises the politically correct and the gaily political should give it up for the man from Cromasaig. He deserves a fortune to favour his bravery.
Hat-tip to Laban Tall for the story
