The more the pro-divorce lobby tries to clarify its stand, the more unconvincing and muddled it becomes. They are simply presenting sophists’ arguments which uncover their own understanding of marriage and the family.

Their case is very distant from the concept of the dignity of the whole person and the family as a human agency basic to society.

Their arguments are simply underlying any marriage as the legitimisation of sexual practice.

The comparison of a marriage contract to the purchase and sale of a car is disgusting.

It reveals irresponsibility just as the no fault clause and the four-year separation. By what route of justice do they conclude such things for others?

Consequently, it follows from the horse’s mouth that those Catholics who must suffer divorce at the hands of their partner in marriage will not suffer as long as they can receive Holy Communion!

Do they believe in Christ’s teaching or do they want to make martyrs out of Catholics, to punish them by putting them in their own place to pay the price of their own frivolous fantasies?

Some clubbing could be detected there. The cold confidence through which such ideas are transmitted reveals incompetence and lack of transparency to say the least, even if one agrees with divorce.

The way this issue has unfolded validates the assumption that the Private Member’s Bill came out in disregard of the people’s mandate and the debate of party politics.