Toleration
Sir: Tony Garrett (Letters, 14/21 Decem- ber) can be as 'inclusive' as he likes with homosexuals, but he really is talking tosh when he suggests that they are 'rejected by society'. My experience of their treatment during the last 20 years, in what Mr Garrett would no doubt consider a harsh arena (military public school, the Highland Brigade, the City), has been one of great tolerance, strained only occasionally by the most aggressive and vociferous of the homosexual lobby when they bang on (as my granny used to say). And it really is stretching credulity to say that the Sodomites were heterosexuals indulging in male rape. Being buggered against one's wishes is the most dreadful nightmare but doesn't make one a poof; the fellow doing the poking, however, has to own up to it — he's no hetero. I suggest Paul Johnson checks his back before fol- lowing Mr Garrett's suggestion to go down 'on his knees' during Advent or at any time.
Alasdair Ogilvy
Battlehurst, Kirdford, West Sussex
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