Tim Farron quits;hostility vs Christians reaches fever pitch

I would say a few things in Farron's favour. One is he's one of the more left-leaning Lib Dems economically (in fact that was largely how he became leader as the Lib Dems wanted to regain their lefty credentials after Nicholas Clegg took them into a coalition with the Tories). The second is whatever his deeply held religious beliefs, he has never used them as an excuse to go against the party line when it came to gay rights.