Labour MP Adrian Vassallo's comments and those from the other side of House clearly depict the sheer hypocrisy these 'knights in shining armour' and 'defenders of the faith' demonstrate every so often.
For these moralists sex is the be-all and end-all of how society should measure 'goodness'; it is not honesty, love, peacefulness, charity and altruism that tops their priorities.
When public contracts that stink to high heaven reach Parliament, they shut their eyes and pretend not to be knowledgeable on the subject; they try to divert attention from these grotesque scandals hoping for forgiveness or, even worse, for a sudden bout of collective amnesia.
These same conservative moralists and 'pulpit politicians' stand hopelessly on the side, without lifting a finger or even co-operating in missions that treat illegal immigrants like dirt. They turn them away, send them to another country where their lives are endangered, and treat them as if they were mere pests that need to be dealt with for electoral expediency. Scores of Maltese have had the temerity to sign a petition encouraging the state to castrate these immigrants and forcibly repatriate them.
And where do the moralists, the 'more Catholic than the Pope' brigade stand in all this? Nowhere! They fall in an eerie silence too afraid of losing a vote or the support of some canvasser who has the word racism written all over his face.
On which pulpit did these moralists stand when the countryside, our common heritage, was being raped? When we started defacing Malta with blocks upon blocks of cheap, tasteless matchboxes? Isn't the wanton destruction of God's gift to generations to come not immoral too? On which side of history will these politicians stand when our children's children will ask why they did or said nothing when destruction and greed were the name of the game?
For these fundamentalists it is not your ability to make the world around you a better place that measures your achievements but whom you sleep with.
These pulpit politicians and their avid followers measure their 'holiness' and worth by how much they despise others, by how much they magnify other people's sins, by how many days in a year they fill the front benches of the church. They mask their 'impurities' and family turbulence with piety and acts of charity meant only to boost their ego and to secure power, votes and maybe a seat in Parliament.
They quote the Bible from their pulpits and when no-one is looking accommodate those they perceive to be sinners in the 'sacristy'. They think their values are omnipotent and selfishly expect the rest to live up or pack up. For these fundamentalist pulpit politicians religion is nothing more than politics, it is power, it is votes.
We hold the keys not only to our bedrooms and to what we do in the privacy of our homes, but to a society which doesn't seek uniformity but one that appreciates diversity, a society that considers being different an asset, not a liability.
Only we have that key and only we can make sure that fundamentalism, which has only brought anguish, hatred and violence, is thrown in the dustbin of our socio-political history once and for all.