I read with interest Josianne Cutajar’s article, ‘Do you have the Ex-Factor?’ (March 4). She clearly says that being gay is being gay and that there is no chance of being healed, not even with the intervention of God. She mentions a person who claimed to be no longer a gay thanks to so-called ‘Catholic teachings’.

The Church opens up to anybody and never rejects any person who believes and practises its teachings. However, the Church has a set of rules one has to abide by.

Neither does the Church hold you by the arm; if you would like to leave you are free to do so.

It is the sexual act itself that the Church condemns.

Those who are gay do not regret they are so. On the contrary, they are glad to live the way they want without anybody’s interference.

I agree that it is cruel to force one who is ‘normal’ (if ever one can manage) to behave as a gay person or vice versa.