Petulance and hysteria

Another as-yet unpublished letter to the Dompost, emailed two days ago on Tuesday March 5:

 

The petulant outburst from promoter Mark Rogers and the Green Party’s Kevin Hague (‘Church snub for singer’s sexuality’, March 5) shows only too clearly what we can expect if gay ‘marriage’ becomes legal. If such a fuss can be kicked up over a few church-goers preferring not to host a gay singer, what would be the reaction to a church minister refusing to celebrate a gay marriage? If the Masterton experience and others overseas are anything to go by, mass hysteria and hefty fines.

 

Julia du Fresne

 

 

And did anyone else feel queasy at the follow-up to that story about the Masterton Lighthouse Church, the juxtaposition in yesterday's Dompost of Tom Scott's cartoon depicting the reprobate Cardinal O'Brien with more free publicity, in the form of another photo of the gay singer whose name I forget, and an hysterical letter denouncing the church, some of whose members weren't happy with her lifestyle? Do you get the feeling that to be Christian is to be more and more marginalized?

 

Oh well, it's Lent.