I made a decision several months ago to stop reading Roamer’s bigoted ramblings in your newspaper as they are invariably partial as well as wrong.

But my attention has been drawn to his piece, ‘As for better or worse’ (April 10), in which he commented on my article in The Times ‘Three Presidents, hypocrisy and divorce’ of March 30, and which merits a quick comment.

While I am prepared to accept that his views and mine about the place of religion in public life are different, I find his selective misreading and deliberate misinterpretation of my article quite unacceptable.

The whole point of what I wrote was to highlight, with regret, the hypocrisy of President Emeritus Eddie Fenech Adami in supporting the introduction of cohabitation laws in Malta – indeed, as leader of his party, first proposing them in his manifesto – which in the eyes of the Church amounts to adultery, while rejecting remarriage after legal separation because “Jesus Christ… said divorce was bad for society”.

As I said, how he can contort his Christian beliefs as to support cohabitation over remarriage defies all logic.

I write this letter to put Roamer right with some trepidation since I know he has been extremely unwell. Despite my fundamental disagreements with him on this subject, I wish him well.

I just wish he’d stop writing as though he were a fully paid-up member of the Sarah Palin school of politics.