13 NOVEMBER 1959, Page 24

SIR.—I1 is a pricelessly unacceptable defence against the suggestion of

hypocrisy when John Gordon writes that 'The Rev. Austin Lee is so full of pity for homo- sexuals that he misses the point.' I should suggest the Rev. Lee has got the point, all right; the Consett boy is dead. As this boy's final despair could well have been the by-product of John Gordon's labours, he might have had the graciousness not to have men- tioned it, even obliquely, in his column.—Yours faith' fully,