Letter: Fear and faith

David A Robertson (Letters, 30 May) never tires of conflating communism and irreligion. North Korea is in the grip of a quasireligious ideology as dogmatic as any fundamentalist faith.

And if he thinks the USA is "advanced" in any moral sense, he should read R Mill Irving's letter (same day). That Christianity offers gays "the prison cell, the lynch mob and the machete" is evident from the moral panic currently sweeping Africa. This witch hunt is led by local Christians, and backed by evangelicals from the USA peddling bogus statistics "proving" gays to be all things bad.

Central to their thesis is the belief that homosexuality is a choice that can be reversed. This ignores the evidence that biology determines sexuality, and genetics are involved.

If Mr Robertson has proof that people have changed their sexuality, then bring it on.

Let's see the phallometric tests and MRI scans, these being the recognised objective ways of determining orientation. Mere stories will not do.

Stephen Moreton

Marina Avenue

Warrington, Cheshire

In response to David Robertson (Letters, 30 May), North Korea is indeed a religious country and that religion is communism.

There is no basis in rationality for communism as it merely substitutes faith in a dictator for faith in God. The antidote to such emotionalistic falsehoods is a philosophy of reason.

Bruce Crichton

Victoria Road

Falkirk