Well, I am donning my flak jacket & tin hat before sticking my head above the parapet. First, by rejecting the abolition of "Section 28", the House of Lords have done no more than respond to the wishes and fears of the majority of the people of Britain, which is more than the Government are doing on this matter.

Most of us share the opinions of Dr. Laura Schlessinger that homosexuality is a biological error leading to devient behaviour. An opinion that is, in the light of the recent overwhelming rejection of homosexual marriage by the people of California and Vermont, possibly shared by the vast majority of American citizens.

Given the prominance of sex in the media, it is possible that the amount of sex education children receive actually encourages them to experiment, with the rise in teenage (and now pre-teen) pregnancies being the disasterous result.

Regarding Section 28, there is nothing in it that will prevent a teacher counciling a child who is, (or thinks they are) homosexual, neither will it prevent a school from stamping hard on related bullying. These claims originate entirely from certain groups advocating increased homosexual rights.

And what are these increased rights? Apart from the oft stated wish for homosexual marriage, these include the right to meet strangers in a variety of locations, including public toilets, graveyards, public parks, car parks and indulging in public and semi-public homosexual activity. Already in London, Birmingham and Manchester there are facillities, supposedly open to the general public, where ordinary people dare not take their children because of the blatent exhibitionism of active homosexuals.

We do not want to see our children corrupted at a vunerable age by the promotion of perversions. Sapper