I suspected that Mr A Dinou would soon be gracing the letters page of the Sunday Mail (March 16th) following your front page article about Archbishop Chrysostomos and his remarks on the gay community as seen in the eyes of the church and “The perverse school of social deviance” as Dinou states in his usual unequivocal tone.
“Christians are now refused their legal right to even teach their children that homosexuality is anathema,” he spouts. Most people, in what we would call the civilised world, have moved on and it is easy to shrug off A Dinou’s comments as the same old ramblings of someone in their dotage.
However, when this and other of his homophobic comments and opinions that have appeared on your letters page are taken seriously by anyone with any power or influence, whether it be a group of ignorant thugs, a political party or religious fundamentalists, real harm is the result. From vicious beatings, murder and gang rapes in some countries, imprisonment in others like Saudi Arabia and Russia and the death penalty in some African countries.
Is this the future he wants to see for Cyprus to ease “The erosion of our moral standards”? Can he not see that a Church that espouses the views that he holds is a cruel and heartless Church.
Even The Pope has said of Gay people “Who am I to judge?”
I’m sure Mr Dinou can dig up a couple of lines from the Old Testament, condemning gays but he will also be fully aware that The Bible also states that gathering firewood on a Sunday, eating shellfish and wearing clothes of more than one fibre are all punishable by stoning to death, however I don’t remember any letters by him speaking on the evils of the prawn sandwich or the cotton polyester shirt.
What is it about the religious that they have this creepy obsession with what happens in the bedroom between consenting adults?
I know a Christian couple (a man and a woman) whose son, in his twenties, is gay.
He was not turned gay as A Dinou has suggested can happen in previous letters, he was just born as he is and is very much loved by his parents. I am interested to know how Mr Dinou would react should he find himself in the same position. Somehow I doubt that he would be thinking “Now what would Jesus do?”
Why is it that those like A Dinou find harm when there is none and loathing where there is only love?
Robert Brew, Paralimni
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