Same-sex marriage needs respectful debate

In a letter in Monday’s (September 18) edition of the Sunraysia Daily there was an opinion stated that could have been read that I have grouped homosexuality with mental health illness. While some in the debate may have made such statements, my letter did not make any such claim. I am happy to own my own words […]

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