Sir, -I dare say it was to be expected that my letter about the "gay wedding" in Berlin would raise a few hackles on your Letters page.
Now, granted my grandmother belonged to another century, another era, when traditional Catholics/Christians would have been totally uncomprehending of anything outside the norm, especially in the context of sexuality.
Today she would, I am sure, as I do, "live and let live" as far as a gay "relationship" goes, but I doubt if she could understand a gay "marriage".
The sacrament of matrimony, then and now, is a binding, religious covenant between a man and a woman, and no amount of understanding or liberal attitudinsing can make a same-sex "marriage" anything more than a travesty.-Yours etc.,
Vera Hughes, Moate, Co Westmeath