We’ve moved on in marriage attitudes

SIR, - Re your correspondent Jenny Scobie’s concerns about Scottish Episcopal clergy presiding over a marriage service at Inverness Cathedral for two male clergymen.

May we not concede it’s possible for two men to love each other and want to share their lives, just as it’s possible two females might wish to do the same, and that God would bless their union? (Press and Journal, October 16).

In the present age we’ve come to recognise how hugely complex we all are, and it seems to me that’s certainly true of human sexuality.

Those who penned the scriptures saw things starkly in black and white whereas now we’re increasingly aware of shades of

grey. It’s evident we’re not all wired the same way, and the early writers would have been wholly ignorant of the psychology involved.

Repressed for centuries, numberless souls were persecuted or put to death for simply being what they were when they couldn’t be otherwise, and many took their own lives.

However, I deplore the way gay pride flaunts itself as in the recent parade through Stornoway.

I make a total distinction between that and same-sex couples loving each other and making lifetime commitments before God. York would be dragging 8,000 tonnes of cable – the equivalent of a Type 26 frigate. And I shudder to think what would happen if the cable got snagged on a mountain top or the plug was accidentally pulled out.

This is surely one innovation that, literally, will not get off the ground. Or am I missing something?