Catholic ethos exposed

If homosexual teachers are as dangerous to our children as Bishop Joseph Devine would have us believe (your report, 21 March), should he not interrogate all teachers immediately, and, if any are found to have any homosexual leanings, demand that they be fired forthwith?

If the Roman Catholic Church is so adamant that such deviant teachers should not be employed in the first place, such is the damage they might do to our children, surely we owe the youngsters protection from all such dangers.

And while teachers are being interrogated to ascertain their compatibility with Roman Catholic social teaching, should he not also ask if any are living in sin, have ever had an abortion or have ever used a contraceptive?

By his own words, Bishop Devine has shown the true extent of the ethos of tolerance and diversity he wants his much-vaunted state-funded Catholic schools to promote and inculcate in our children.

Thanks goodness he will not get away with it.

ALAN HENNESS

Convener, Humanist Society of Scotland

Laurel Gait

Cambuslang, Glasgow

I really cannot fathom the fuss over Bishop Joseph Devine’s remarks about the employment of gay teachers in Catholic schools.

When an intrinsic part of the role of teacher or priest involves telling the vulnerable and the gullible that homosexuality is "intrinsically disordered", what self-respecting homosexual would want to work for the Roman Catholic Church in the first place?

JOHN HEIN

Editor, ScotsGay magazine

PO Box 666

Edinburgh