Personal freedom
Even the heterosexual marriages/relationships Mr Lucas favours can be harmful to health, with almost 60,000 cases of domestic violence in 2011-12.
As to mental health, there are happy and unhappy heterosexual people, just as there are in the LGBT community. If anything, where any LGBT person is more likely to face mental health issues, it is due to stress and depression caused by societal pressures and homophobia.
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Hide AdMr Lucas does “not believe that young children should be prompted to question their own sexuality”. I could not agree more – and that includes LGBT children, who are made to feel like outcasts just for being who they are.
Leslie John Thomson
Moredunvale Green
Edinburgh