Three letters to the Dompost in just over a week: how opinionated. Guess which one got printed? (A clue: ‘im indoors disapproved.) 

 May 15: 

Jim Hollis says ‘the Catholic Church discriminates against women who want to be priests’. Is Hollis a Catholic? If he is, let him protest to his bishop. If not, he could become a Catholic and then protest to his bishop. Or he could mind his own business.

Julia du Fresne 

 May 21:

Callous indifference to the continuing slaughter on our roads, as Steve Russell puts it (Points, May 21), is shame enough. But at least road deaths are unintentional. What about our callous indifference to the continuing slaughter in our hospitals of around 18000 preborn infants annually which is deliberately sought, bought and paid for by the taxpayer?

 

Julia du Fresne  

May 23:

Yvette Cooper, UK’s shadow home secretary, says that now Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands and Uruguay have legalised same-sex marriage, it’s time for England and Wales to follow. Maria Miller, the Tory equalities minister, tells MPs it’s time to ‘move on’. I’m reminded of a telling line from Eugene Ionesco’s play, Rhinoceros: ‘Just before he became a beast, his last human words were ‘we must move with the times’.

 

Julia du Fresne