http://shet.news/qpu6e Copied! AS OPENING gambits in an election campaign go, making national newspaper headlines for linking same-sex marriage to a deadly health pandemic is probably not the one most folk would choose.
But that’s what independent candidate Peter Tait managed to achieve. While he has made a partial attempt to backpedal having told The Shetland Times that “Covid is possibly related to it”, he is unrepentant in his view that same-sex relationships should be regarded as a “sin”. 12 of 13Adverts In a crowded by-election field in August 2019 he came tenth out of 10 candidates with 31 votes and a 0.3 per cent share of the vote. Back then his candidacy majored on a proposal to relocate the monarchy to Scotland.