Secular assaults

example of the Scottish Government trying to interfere with family life?

In Scotland mammoth problems exist in running our schools, health services and our economy, and child poverty and homelessness problems require urgent attention. This being so, it seems rather strange that the First Minister seems to be giving her highest priority to gender issues.

At the risk of being labelled homophobic, I wonder whether she is not just cynically trying to buy the votes of equality organisations and LGBTI rights campaigners? SALLY GORDON-WALKER Caiystane Drive, Edinburgh 11 November). Really? Is this the very same Nicola Sturgeon who lectures the rest of us on the sins of driving into city centres and owning diesel cars, and plans to penalise us for such environmentally unsound behaviour?

Shhh, let’s keep this latest news about the nationalist leader’s lacklustre green credentials from her bestie and Green co-convener, Patrick Harvie. Perhaps he’ll insist that Ms Sturgeon sets even higher income tax rises next April than he’s already demanding?

MARTIN REDFERN Woodcroft Road, Edinburgh As a reader of The Scotsman I find myself bewildered by the increasingly vitriolic attacks on Christians launched by representatives of secular society.

Why do they reserve the worst of their bile for them? Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, they’re okay, but not, apparently, Christians, who appear to be responsible for every ill that