Madam, - In the very first sentence of your front-page report of August 9th on the "Anglican gay crisis" appears that tricky little word, "attitudes".
Some of my best friends are. . . - and I accept that Christians may indeed have a homosexual orientation. But when gays go public about it and seek to politicise a mere sexual orientation, do we really have to be so overawed that we adopt our "attitude" to their entirely subjective interpretation of their own Christianity?
No doubt it is the easiest thing in the world for all of us to find ourselves justifying our consciences, but I hope for the good of language that we continue to call a spade a spade, and an orientation an orientation. We should recognise the abiding truth of the old adage, "Hypocrisy is mediocrity's tribute to virtue". - Yours, etc.,
PATRICK PYE, Piperstown, Tallaght Dublin 24.