Like Dr T. Baxter, I too read the un-named correspondent's recent suggestion that the repeal of Section 28 is one of several key ways in which homophobic attacks could be eliminated (September 19); in fact I wrote the letter. Dr Baxter, however, rejects this evidently common sense solution as political correctness.
That's rubbish. Ignorance, especially among the young, breeds prejudice and prejudice spawns aggression, verbal and physical.
I am frankly alarmed at Dr Baxter's alternative of a vigorous campaign to instil Christian views. What on earth does he have in mind? Compulsory Sunday School? Cold showers? Burning of heretics and homosexuals at the stake?
He also talks about the love of God and of our fellow man, but I'm baffled because he seems to think his vigorous Christianity results in less aggression! History does not bear this out: Look at the Crusades, the Inquisition and the Holocaust.
The intemperate and inflammatory remarks made by some of the great and good in the debate in Parliament on Section 28 would also seem to refute this.
My Jesus Christ is certainly not the ill-informed and bigoted heterosexual exclusivist reflected by the Dr T. Baxters of this world.
-Richard Franklin, St George's Road, Kemp Town
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