Treating people as outcasts over sexual orientation not acceptable

Evert Bopp’s letter (Irish Examiner, March 24) is mischievous in so far as it seeks to convey the impression that a ‘Yes’ vote in the Marriage Equality Referendum will diminish the status in the Constitution of marriage between a man and a woman.

It will do nothing of the sort.

Bopp’s scare-mongering might be acceptable had he not set himself up as a victim of people whose ideas he regard as less virtuous than his own. Hypocrisy and humbug did I ever offend thee? We are all flawed.

That is why the world is in the mess that it is and people’s sexual orientation had nothing to do with it. Without being accepted for what we are life would soon become intolerable and a domino effect would then ensue, adversely affecting us all.

Indeed, strange to say, in a land endowed with the Christian message of love of God and one’s neighbour, warts and all, that is how it has long been, thanks to supporters of the status quo, and those whose motto it is to resist change for the better.

The problems here do not reside with people whose sexual orientation do not conform, rather with those who wish to ostracise and treat them as outcasts. That situation should never have been allowed and it is no longer acceptable.

Pat Daly

Suncourt Estate

Midleton

Co Cork