I SUPPORT the Rev Kevin Logan's comments against homosexuals (Letters, February 1) and would speak out against Mrs Chris Wilkin-Wyke's support for them (Letters, February 5).

A lot of children are exposed to sexual abuse and the lowering of moral standards is one of the main reasons for it. The age of consent may be lowered to 16, but you cannot compromise on decency.

For while a rose by any other name may smell just as sweet, filth dressed up as gay is still filth.

Since the end of the war, when we fought together for freedom, we have now failed to live up to the promise of those years and the new freedom is to open the floodgates.

Too many of the young have embraced the breakdown in family values, have no standards and face no restrictions. Marriage is 'old fashioned;' perverts are the tops and if you drink or take drugs and you're really with it.

It's a case of: Don't climb upwards; just let go and sink; just lay back and listen to what passes for music. I never thought I'd ever see so-called men wearing earrings. Such is progress.

I look back to the Thirties when young people tried to live up to the ideal of a sound mind in a sound body and their energy was used up cycling, hiking, climbing, etc.

Music was gay and cheerful and to be a husband or wife was most young people's goal.

LEN RUSHTON, St Michael's Court, Blackburn.

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