Dear Editor,

It is silly and wrong to liken homosexuality to adulterers, etc. It just doesn’t follow. Are we then saying that if people decide to openly flaunt sexual attractions to animals we should leave them be, because we are less vocal about adulterers? Whom would you rather live beside? A murderer or a traffic offender? Better yet, would you rather have an adulterer or a homosexual as your neighbour, especially if you have young impressionable aged kids? Those of you who speak about being silent on molesters, the fact that it is against the law is a clear indicator that we abhor the practice as well.

I am tired of people acting like the abhorrence of a gay lifestyle makes you a bad human being and that to voice your displeasure makes you homophobic. Well, if that qualifies me as one, then so be it, because this is one trend that I won’t be accepting from overseas.

We need to have our own minds and be strong and stop sacrificing our values and morals because America or Europe say it’s OK or our friends in society say it’s fine. I am sorry; not me, because the very same people we try to impress by adopting their projected value systems are the very same ones who in the privacy of their own home venomously despise the very gays they rub shoulders with.

This is typical of the saying, “See me and live with me a two different story”. So the next time you plan to act hip or to gain acceptance from a social class or group, find some other minority issue to defend – make sure it’s one that you can truly identify with, or it’s in a country whose culture lends itself to this sort of lifestyle, for you might run the risk of being left with the end of the stick.

Wayne Johns

jhns_wyn@yahoo.co.uk