I FOUND your editorial footnote to a recent letter of mine both rude and presumptuous (You Say, Friday, June 27).
Indeed, my letter in response to Councillor Tom Wareing's extraordinary ideas of secular humanism made no references denying him his right to free speech within the law, as you put it.
In point of fact, my letter dealt clearly with two main issues:
Firstly Coun Wareing's damaging prejudices towards worldly ethics associated with humanist philosophy.
Secondly, the councillor's bizarre and contemptible inference that secular humanism somehow contributes to the social ills of modern society, which of course is blatantly untrue and which may well promote the same levels of mischief and blindness in others.
On the record, I have no desire to suppress his right of opinion, but let that opinion be based on a modicum of truth, and not fairy stories.
JED KING,
Crowle.
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