Sir, I welcome the recommendation by the judge that the murderers of Jody Dobrowsky should serve 28 years of their life sentences. The details of the case were so appalling that one has to question what we are doing as a society to prevent such brutality.
I find it ironic that the conservative evangelical wing of the Christian Churches, especially currently that of the Anglican Church, is fuelling the sort of hatred that begets such tragedies, even in such seemingly innocuous vehicles as the Alpha Course.
Those who are threatening schism and demanding repentance of the Episcopal Church of the US for ordaining Bishop Gene Robinson would do better to seek repentance from perpetrators of homophobic crime who mistakenly see approval to hate in such so-called Christian teaching.
MIKE LAWLOR
Teddington, Middlesex