October 4.
Unlike John Macleod I was actually at Dunoon when Ms Kay Millar made
her well-researched and unemotional speech in favour of Leith
Constituency Association's resolution to decriminalise prostitution --
not legalise it as stated in his article (September 26). There is a big
difference.
This was the first of many fabrications in an article more intent on
giving vent to John Macleod's anger, spite, and bile than trying to
present a coherent argument against decriminalising prostitution.
The motion was an attempt to air this difficult matter and hopefully
put forward ideas to safeguard sex workers from persecution and physical
abuse. The fact that soliciting is illegal and these sex workers are
often fined, forcing them to continue soliciting in order to pay these
fines, produces a cycle of despair.
Kay Millar is a mature and responsible person who is currently
supporting herself by working in a bar at weekends and evenings during
her last year of a degree course at Edinburgh University.
John Macleod's scurrilous personal attack on her in a national
newspaper is both bullying and cowardly.
Far from being ''remitted to the wild blue yonder,'' a paper on this
subject is currently being prepared for rational discussion at SNP
National Assembly.
Anne Dana,
Secretary,
Leith Constituency
Association SNP,
1 Taylor Gardens,
Edinburgh.
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