Diarmuid Breatnach
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Dear Editor,
Your Breaking News edition of 4 September 2025 featured a news item about a freak snail, with a left-spiralling shell, for which a freak mate was being sought.
This was disgusting use of public media light-heartedly flaunting disregard for Christian morality.
Ireland is a Christian country and public reference to the sexual act in general is bad enough but writing about snails and their sexual acts is much, much worse.
Quite apart from left-spiralling shells, snails are already freaks. It is well known that snails are hermaphrodite, that is they carry both male and female sexual organs and when one wishes to mate with another, apparently one decides whether to act the male while the other decides to act the female.
This is clearly unnatural and against God’s Plan, who created every animal as functioning male or female and the same with human beings. Snails in fact, apart from being a pest in the garden are clearly one part of Satan’s spawn. They are an abomination.
That any snail, whether with a right or a left-spiralling shell should fail to find a mate is a good thing and your publication should not be encouraging people to find it a partner. Your newspaper could be considered to be in effect pimping for it.
Publications of stories about snails and their sexual habits can only encourage the latest trend in human deviation known as ‘trans’ where some people choose to consider themselves and to be considered as a gender other than that with which they were born. This too is an abomination.
Please return to God’s plan and cease printing such dangerous and disgusting reports.
Sincerely,
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