I AGREE with Richard Grant (Letters, June 8).

“It is wrong that a few hundred elected politicians and in some cases inherited politicians, can decide the fate of marriage,” he says.

Indeed, I would contend that many politicians who were ‘born to the role’, including those whose career path in politics has been engineered, via the public school system, are unable to alter their own inbred view of the world, despite the wishes of the majority view of their constituents.

Mr Grant also says ‘marriage is about families, same sex parents are not natural, whilst children need both a mother and a father.’ So true – simple basic common sense, which typically is lacking in those same politicians, who voted to allow same sex marriage.

In my opinion, far more damaging, will be the adverse effect on children, who are being raised by same sex couples.

Deprived of a normal upbringing by a mother AND a father, and perhaps never knowing their own biological parents, ticking inside each child will be a time bomb of hurt and resentment.

What about the rights of those children – when as teenagers they ask those same politicians – ‘why did you allow same sex marriage, and allow me to be raised by a same sex couple’?

Will those politicians say ‘we got it wrong, we should have had a referendum’ – of course not, they are not in the real world.

A JONES, Hythe.