Europe and the family

From Professor John M Rist Sir, The conclusion of David Twiston Davies' column (August 27) would have us believe that "The most disturbing result of the present drift ... is the way so much emanating from Brussels is striking at the core of the Catholic outlook — the family". But on the same page Of the paper I read, in two separate articles on Britain, of "a long line of decisions which have gradually pushed back the boundaries of what is thought acceptable, not only on sexual matters but on violence and language as well", and of "the triumphant march of gay rights, tracing the way in which Labour, in particular, has changed its tune over the homosexual question" — plus how this "chapter (of the book under review) was removed by the publishers because they were fearful of giving offence".
On the opposite page I read in your editorial that "the government is sending out confused signals over the provision of contraceptives for under-age girls". (Deliberately, one may assume.) Instead of making a Eurosceptic political point over family matters, Mr Twiston Davies would have done better to draw to his readers' attention that the same "unenlightened" and antifamily gang who wield power in Brussels are to be found at Westminster, and that our Prime Minister, who passes for a crypto-Catholic — or at least fellow traveller — in the Herald and elsewhere, presides over a Cabinet whose social and antifamily policies are indicated by the quotations I have culled: hardly surprising since he and almost all his chosen ministers unfailingly vote anti-life.
Yours faithfully JOHN NI' lust Cambridge.