A TORY MSP running for leadership of the party has said he does not support gay marriage.
Murdo Fraser told the Daily Record that 10 years after voting against the equality measure, he still does not back it.
The long-standing MSP is vying for Tory leadership against Meghan Gallacher and Russell Findlay.
“That’s how I voted and I haven’t changed my mind on that,” he said.
Just this week, Fraser vowed to unite his party as Jamie Greene, who is openly gay and is co-convenor of the Scottish Parliament's cross-party LGBT group, ditched his own leadership bid to throw his weight behind him.
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Liam Kerr and Brian Whittle - who had also launched leadership bids of their own - also left the race and backed Fraser.
Fraser was one of 18 MSPs who voted against gay men and women being able to marry their loved ones.
In 2006, he was one of only four Tories to vote against same sex couples being able to adopt children.
During the Holyrood debate, he said: “Many believe that children need male and female role models and they are concerned that adoption by same-sex couples excludes such a possibility and is simply not in children's best interests.
"People who express such views are not homophobes, extremists or—as some suggest—religious nutters. They have genuine concerns that should not be dismissed with name calling and abuse.”
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Two years earlier, MSPs backed the principle of giving same sex couples the opportunity to form a civil partnership, but Fraser said: "I have severe reservations about whether the introduction of civil partnerships exclusively for same-sex couples is the right way in which to approach the problem."
When asked about his voting record at his campaign launch in Perth, Fraser said: “I’m a Christian. I take a particular view on what marriage should be."
Legislation creating buffer zones around clinics to block anti-abortion protests was also recently passed by Holyrood, but Fraser did not support the plan.
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