l AS nobody has commented on Peter Tatchell’s plea for ‘gay’ marriage in church (Oxford Mail, February 16) I take up my pen.
Firstly, when homosexuals call themselves ‘gay’ it means, and is meant to mean, that straight people cannot be gay in the proper sense of the word.
I don’t think that the Oxford Mail should share in an insult to more than 90 per cent of humanity.
Secondly, marriage, as any dictionary will tell you, is the union of a man and a woman. Gay marriage is no more marriage than a Scotch woodcock is a bird, or a Glasgow kiss an embrace.
What Mr Tatchell and his Stonewall friends really want is to degrade real marriage.
RALPH LEAVIS, Jourdain Road, Blackbird Leys, Oxford
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