Most polls conducte on these issues, are influenced heavily by what is being promoted by media and pressure groups.

Most people are simply afraid to say what they really think, for fear of legal action......as in the Glasgow preacher case, or due to pressure to conform to artificial norms.

The Mudcat "liberal" goldfish bowl, is an interesting place, but hardly representative of public opinion.

One can hardly tune in to any entertainment broadcasts without seeing homosexuals promoted to an unrepresentative extent, of their lifestyle presented as positive and "cool".

The very real health, psychiatric and lifestyle problems associated with homosexuality, for a large part of that community, are never made clear to the public.

Whether you like to admit what seems obvious or not, the Church and society must stop looking for excuses, make sure abusive priests are charged and if guilty convicted. this would pave the way for a public enquiry into why homosexual abuse is so widespread in the priesthood.

If these measures are not put into place, then the Church's opponents here will have been proved correct, the criminality will indeed be seen as endemic to Catholicism.

Justice must be seen to be done, even if doing so turns up truths which are hard for many here to swallow.