How does one promote homosexuality? Are there adverts asking people to give up their expensive wives and get a cheaper male one, just think less money on hair products! It just wouldn’t work.

You can’t persuade someone to change their sexuality. With enormous pressure you can get gay people to marry straight people of the opposite sex, it doesn’t make them straight, it just makes them and their spouse miserable.

History is there to be learned from, the third gender was a part of South Asian culture for a very long time before foreign missionaries changed attitudes. Same sex relationships are not a Western Invention, the earliest known gay couple were two ancient Egyptian Hair dressers who were buried together as a couple, long before white men walked on Adam’s Peak. They were given the respect they deserved as a loving couple. Sri Lanka does have a very ancient civilization, and ancient civilizations tend to be more tolerant of different ways of living.

Desire might be the basic for all human suffering, but it is not illegal to have marriage, sex or children, likewise it should not be against the law to have love and make it with an adult who also wants the same. Lets save the anger for people who have sex with children, that really causes real suffering, anxiety and a very messed up head for the rest of that person’s life. If society was more open you would be shocked at how many people there are that have suffered from abuse. Fifty years on I could dissolve in a puddle of tears thanks to my dirty uncle. By the way before that all started, long before that, I would shuffle around in my mother’s shoes and loved pretty sari fabrics. No one promoted or made me gay. It’s who I am.

Why did the author feel the need to come out of the closet about her own non-homosexual status?

Even a schoolboy could have come up with a better balanced and more informative essay just by Googling some facts before putting pen to paper!

Shame on you Daily Mirror for permitting such narrow minded and vindictive thoughts to be published as your official opinion.

P.S. It was even more shocking to see that the Daily Mirror also declined to publish even a single comment that was made on their site. Aren’t the newspapers supposed to be the guardians and champions of free speech in this country?

Please uncross those wires and stand by what is right. If u r confused seek saner council. Just dont make it any worse for any minority who have to deal with so much more injustice and discrimination just cuz u folk are loony or too lazy to separate fact from fiction!

An editorial shows a newspaper’s policies – so what does this say for the Daily Mirror? This is more like a gossip column than an editorial article! Hopefully, the newspaper will take measures to correct their wrongs, instead of continuing their double standards and losing the trust of their readers.