MADAM, Perhaps Ruth Smith should now be advised that it is impossible to confuse same-sex cohabitation with a Christian marriage and still be in accord with what is written in a Christian Bible – because the result would be a contradiction.

However, most of the Arian heretics of Western Europe have been fundamentally adrift since Alaric the Goth invaded Rome, and they have long been desperate to get folk to say what they do not mean. So it might be as well if she ceases to recognise them.

Keith Horne, Gorsley