It was so full of unprovable assertions and assumptions and plainly the writer will never be convinced he is wrong.

But I would like to ask if he has ever met children being brought up by a same-sex couple? 

I have, as a teacher, and I found them to be exactly the same as children of other couples, same gender or not.

Surely it is better for a child to be brought up by two loving parents, whatever their gender, than by a single parent? 

There are already far too many single-parents in the world, with regrettable potential effects on the children.

Has he ever asked a homosexual if they are trying to ‘hijack the sanctity of marriage’? 

Why does he believe that two loving people are trying to hijack anything? Surely by the sanctity argument, divorce should be made illegal, as it destroys the marriage.

And why does he believe that the ‘birds and the bees’ should be explained by someone of the same gender? 

That would mean that teaching of biology to mixed-gender classes should be abolished.

As for homosexuality being unnatural – if that were so, it would not be so common in humans, animals and even insects.

I think it a shame that the writer cannot show a little more generosity and understanding towards those who do not think the same way as he does.

David O’Connor,

Eden.