There are signs emerging that the new Liberal leader, Tim Farron, is something of a religious fundamentalist. Some of his evasive answers have failed to dispel this impression. You can be a fundamentalist and still be a conservative or you can still be a socialist, but you cannot be a liberal. That is just not possible. Either Mr Farron makes it very clear and beyond doubt that he does not regard being gay as a sin or else his leadership of the Liberal party is for all practical purposes over.