Homophobe

Your correspondent Bill Capamagian (Bay Times, 8 August) does not speak for me. His anti-gay views clearly identify him as one of the bigoted homophobes that the Aids Foundation thinks the Bay is full of. He bases his intolerance on his interpretation of Christianity and the Bible. No wonder so many New Zealanders – in fact the biggest single group in the last two censuses – profess no religion at all. Clearly we have a lot of work to do if we are to correct the image of the Bay of Plenty as an ignorant and intolerant backwater.