Divorce: Need it be so complicated? (1)

It's strange here in Malta - on the one hand we want to be a democracy, meaning we want to be given certain choices, on the other hand we like to boast of our Catholic faith, meaning we want to follow the prescribed order of values.

I suggest that those who get married in Church take the matter very seriously because there is no turning back, through thick and thin, till death do you part.

That is the vow on God's altar and it ought not to be taken lightly. Getting married in Church ought to mean that you acknowledge this fully. Otherwise the whole Catholic faith becomes but one big lie, one big joke. Yes, getting married in Church is like having a tattoo done, a spiritual tattoo.

Now on the other hand, those couples who get married via the registry office, of course ought to be allowed divorce (should things go wrong), because at the end of the day, their marriage was no more than a legal contract. It's just a matter of changing one's social status, that's all; freedom, choices, no walls.

But in this case, the hypocrisy in kissing the Cross ought to be removed from this public space.

Getting married in Church is the ritual, while getting married in office is but a legal procedure. But neither Church nor state ought to decide anymore, for it is the right and privacy of the people involved to choose for themselves which direction they wish to lead their lives.

This kind of logic is of course applicable to other local issues.