Sir, - Rory O'Hanlon's citing St Paul's bloodthirsty homo phobia (March 16th), strengthens my belief that the Bible should be required to carry a statutory mental health warning.
Mr O'Hanlon continues to have difficulties in accepting our last and present duly elected Presidents in terms of their femaleness. In one breathtaking swoop he conflates the matter of the headgear of both ladies with the forthcoming visit by President McAleese to Outhouse, a centre for the gay community, along with her partaking of Communion in Christ Church - a gesture which won the warm approval of the vast majority of the populace. By showing a commendable unwillingness to play the head-bowed handmaiden, both presidents have incurred the peevish censure of Mr O'Hanlon and some of our more timewarped clergymen.
That neither of our two woman presidents chose to act with medieval submissiveness before the head of a somewhat absurd menonly state may be a cause of distress to such as Rory O'Hanlon, but I suggest that it meets with the approbation of the people of Ireland who voted them into their high office, and who are sickened by the squalid crimes of so many ministers of their church, along with the hypocrisy and disgraceful cover-up so persistently practised by their episcopal superiors.
What sort of Catholic is our President? asks Mr O'Hanlon. This, I suggest, is surely none of his business, but I'm quite certain she isn't of the Opus Dei variety that might meet with his approval. - Yours, etc., David Grant,
Mount Pleasant, Waterford.