Special Sundays

Under his embittered rhetoric, Alan Hinnrichs (Letters, 28 September) did not make a convincing case that a campaign against Sunday sailings amounts to a call to “return to the dark ages”.

Is a return to an age when families enjoyed a common day of leisure time really so sinister?

Keeping a shared day relatively free of work commitments obviously needs a degree of co-ordination, where individuals recognise that conforming to the pattern benefits society overall.

Yet again, we have Christians arguing reasonably, and a secularist ignoring the case presented, instead expressing horror that religious people still don’t realise that they are not allowed to make their views known.

Richard Lucas

Broomyknowe

Edinburgh