EXCLUSIVE | WATCH: Inverness council to reject anti-LGBT parade petition
Ten times number of protestors support ProudNess in counter petitions.
Last updated 29th Mar 2019
MFR News is exclusively revealing Highland Council will reject a petition to stop an LGBT pride parade through Inverness next month.
Fewer that 1,000-people signed it, but the local authority's hands are tied because it's a legal, not a political issue.
The decision comes after a recommendation from the Head of Corporate Governance who works for the coalition-led administration.
More than ten times the number of anti-ProudNess protestors supported the event on October 6th by backing two counter-petitions.
They were set up in reaction to controversial campaigner Donald Morrison remarks in our exclusive broadcast interview with the man after setting up his petition on so-called: "biblical, religious, and moral grounds."
Last week in his interview with our senior reporter Bryan Rutherford which went viral on Twitter, he told MFR News: "I don't want to go into a religious biblical debate, that's not the nature of our objections at all.
"It's a petition on biblical, religious, and moral grounds.
"I would be the first to go in the defence of anyone in the LGBT community should someone be in opposition to them.
"These lifestyles in and of themselves is immoral.
"If I was bigoted I certainly wouldn't have taken a homosexual out recently to dinner."