Letter: Biblical justice

Matthew Wright
Thursday 25 June 1998 00:02 BST
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Sir, Before we hear any more espousing of the "orthodox, traditional Christian" position on homosexuality from the likes of Sir Patrick Cormack, Sir Patrick might want to acquaint himself with the full implications of such a position.

The traditional condemnation of homosexuality rests on exactly the same theological justification as does that of usury: that both practices violate the law of nature, which no one has believed in seriously for some 350 years. Dante places usurers and sodomites in the same circle of hell because the former make fertile something (money) which should be sterile; sodomites make sterile something (the sexual relationship) which should be fertile.

I await with eager anticipation Sir Patrick's traditional Christian comments on the City.

MATTHEW WRIGHT,

Pewley Bank,

Guildford, Surrey

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