Whom the Gods wish to destroy

Calton looked down from his eyrie on the hill this morning and spied a small gathering clothed in purple and white outside New St Andrews House. On closer inspection this turned out to be a group of Scotland for Marriage supporters, come to hand in a letter from 70 evangelical ministers in favour of maintaining traditional marriage. Calton suspects they may be wasting their time - those whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad, which may account for Alex Salmond's spectacular loss of political nous on this subject. His overall majority seems to have gone to his head to the extent that he does not seem to either realise or care that his 'mind to back same-sex marriage' will cost him dearly, not just in votes but also in financial backing. Mad indeed.