AN American preacher, the Rev Jerry Falwell, a man obviously more nutty than a bar of Cadbury's fruit and nut, is making outrageous and ludicrous claims that the purple-coloured Teletubby named Tinky Winky is gay and corrupts small children.

I shudder at the thought of what he might say over Snow White's Seven Dwarfs feeling Happy, or about Bill and Ben, the Flowerpot Men, loitering about their garden with a load of pansies and a little weed!

And just because those lovable piggies, Pinky and Perky shared the same sty, it doesn't mean that they were all pink and pervy as well!

Toys coming out of the closet now takes on a whole new meaning in the nursery!

EVAN WILLIAMS, Carr Meadow, Clayton-le-Woods.

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