The First Minister is in a dither about it, the Cabinet is split over it and church figures call for a referendum as gay rights activists take to the streets.
No, not Tuesday's aborted Cabinet decision on same-sex marriage, but the Labour-Liberal Democrat Cabinet in 2000 during the row over the abolition of Section 2A on the teaching of homosexuality in schools. It is remarkable that the first real split faced by the SNP First Minister, Alex Salmond, is over homosexual equality, just as it was for the late Donald Dewar.
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