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If you are a gay person worried about the Tory deal with the homophobic Ulstermen, don’t worry, Ruth’s got it sorted.

That’s because the Scottish Tory leader is herself gay and told the Prime Minister that her human rights must be bomb-proofed in the dirty deal with the DUP.

But if you are Catholic or Irish and worry about sectarianism and peace in Northern Ireland, you can go hang.

Right enough, did you ever expect it? The Scottish Tory Party contain elected members who have expressed what appeared to be anti-Catholic views, including past members of Davidson’s staff.

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She was condemned during the General Election for seeming to exploit tensions in Northern Ireland with her Twitter attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, including a bizarre comment that making peace was an insult to British soldiers.

Of course, it is correct to condemn the Democratic Unionist Party’s bigoted record on LGBT rights and opposition to equal marriage.

But this is not the only objectionable prejudice nursed by the party founded by Ian Paisley. The most devastating recent analysis of the DUP comes from Northern Ireland Conservatives.

Roger Lomas, the chairman of the Fermangh and Tyrone Conservative Association said: “If this arrangement continues, there won’t be a Roman Catholic in England, Scotland or Wales that’ll be voting Conservative next time around.

“This isn’t like getting into bed with the Ulster Unionists – May is hooking up with triumphalist, sectarian extremists who pretend to be modernising – we are not happy.”

He went on to say that the UK Tories had been cosying up to the DUP for several months, adding: “They are reinforcing sectarian politics for a sectarian carve-up.”

He has been suspended from the party for speaking out.

Lomas’s fears were almost immediately realised when there were demands at the weekend that any deal with Theresa May should include the lifting of a ban on a notorious Orange march through a nationalist area of Northern Ireland.

The Portadown Loyal Orange Lodge want their traditional route of the Drumcree March restored – it was banned from going through nationalist areas in the 90s and the row saw

some of the worst street violence of The Troubles.

The row came to a head in 1998 when three young Catholic brothers aged 9, 10 and 11 were murdered by a loyalist firebomb thrown through the window of their home.

But this weekend, the Portadown Loyal Orange Order issued a statement demanding their newly influential DUP MPs use their clout to address the parade issue. They said: “We trust that they are successful in promoting the values of the Unionist people and the Orange fraternity.”

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It would be good to hear Davidson speak out against the strengthening of this malignancy in Westminster politics.

But why should she? She had no response when the Grand Master of the Orange Lodge in Scotland Jim McHarg praised her for her unionism and pointed out the strength of Tory support in his organisation.

Sectarian sickness breaks out far too often around Ruth.

The Tory Councillor elected for the Dunblane and Bridge of Allan ward in Stirlingshire last month, Alastair Majury, was exposed in the Scottish Catholic Observer for sectarian comments.

Neill Graham, the Tory councillor for Paisley Northeast and Ralston, was exposed for sharing a Facebook post by the “Proud to be a Protestant banter” group which showed a picture of the Parachute Regiment during Bloody Sunday.

Back in 2011, Colin James Taylor, a member of Ruth Davidson’s Holyrood staff, posted lyrics glorifying the terrorist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). A previous member of her staff, Ross McFarlane, was sacked after being filmed burning a European Union flag in Glasgow, while a companion referred to Catholics as “tarriers”.

If terms of abuse towards gay people are unacceptable – and they are – the same logic should apply to the abuse of people who are Irish and Catholic.

Davidson talks a great deal about division. But the DUP are the very essence of division – and they are her party’s new best friends.