Conscience is key

In reply to Dr Stephen Moreton (Letters, 20 June): I experience “contrition” over many things, but not because I accept the Biblical view of sexual morality as according with my conscience, reason and the available evidence.

With regard to homosexual sex, I do not wish my views to be enforced by law, but I want the freedom to act and speak according to my conscience.

Dr Moreton’s attempt to conflate freedom of conscience with the “persecution” of gay people is yet another tactic to demonise dissent.

Richard Lucas

Edinburgh