The Editor, Sir:

As a nation we are frothing with indignation that we are being forced to bend at the waist to accommodate the homosexual lifestyles.

We have our own social codes, but little does anyone know that we also have the perfect deterrent and punishment. For those lesbian women and gay men, our society should make mandatory the punishment by enforced consumption of large quantities of Scotch bonnet peppers.

This will cause severe burning at both the North and South poles (I try, like Oscar Wilde, to be delicate). The effects will be obvious and inflammatory and act as well as a deterrent.

Suitable penance

Maybe our archbishop will recommend it to the Vatican as a suitable penance, and the Anglicans/Episcopalians might broach the subject at the Lambeth Conference. The less-traditional churches might provide free Scotchies at the exit doors after the usual fiery exhortations.

The minister of agriculture - and given the decrees of Bruce, he assuredly will have no personal need - will be aroused by the impact on the agricultural sector.

I am, etc.,

A.B. O'MASUM

Riva Ridge

Kingston 6