Mixed blessings from clergy

Sir, - Regarding the opening of the new Queensferry Crossing over the Forth on Monday past, I am constantly surprised by the apparently obligatory appearance of clergy at the official opening or hanselling of a huge variety of things.

In recent years clergy across the United Kingdom have “blessed” bridges, tractors, fields, pets, a circus big top, a Great Yarmouth ale and even a Cumbrian sewage plant but still they seem to have a problem blessing two gay people who love each other.

It seems their Lord does indeed move in mysterious ways. Alistair McBay. National Secular Society, 5 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh.