Under suspicion
The day is surely approaching when every PC employer (and that will include every government and council department) will just require applicants to tick the "I think that homosexual relationships are morally acceptable" box on the job application form. Catholic, Evangelical and Conservative Christians would then be excluded from many spheres at a stroke. All in the name of tolerance and equality, of course.
RICHARD LUCAS
Cowan Road
Edinburgh
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The gay marriage issue that Tim Hopkins' (Letters, 10 August) and others raise so regularly is surely a non-issue if the accepted dictionary meaning of the word "marriage" is understood. I quote from my Oxford dictionary of 2003, not a relic of Victorian usage but within the present decade, where "marriage" is defined as "the formal union of a man and a woman, typically as recognised by law, by which they become husband and wife".
Whatever a same-sex partnership may purport to be, it is not a marriage.
OLIVIA BELL
Allanton
Berwickshire