Once again, the patient and tolerant, objective and unmanipulative, logical and lucid section of our people has been insulted by those who believe are our leaders in yet another stupid debate that has been in apt carnivalesque style regaled to us in a public forum last Saturday.
The event was a non-starter from the word go as it was organised by a group that allegedly does not have divorce among its beliefs. Hence, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition should never have partook in this social farce. The occasion only served to further enhance their lack of credibility in the field.
I was busy on other more relevant matters, so I went by the reports I read and the comments I heard. The more revealing of the latter related to the apparent transparency of our so-called political spearheads in their open insincerity on the issue. As political leaders they are aware that divorce is not an issue but a reality they must face, accept and implement. It is a state matter that no "spiritual" organisation should be allowed to meddle with because the state's interests and those of its lay people are not the business of self-made monsignors who represent no one.
Lawrence Gonzi and Joseph Muscat are aware that the Maltese family is in a disastrous state because of the malfunctioning of a Family Court in not having the possibility to pronounce itself on the dissolution of a valid marriage, an aspect of our way of life that is deliberately being shied from for the politically-selfish reasons of the two major parties. The people are fed up with being used. The individual exigencies of our people in these intimate and personal matters have for many years now been ignored.
Our Constitution has to be updated to be in line with the anti-discrimination clauses it embraces (no organisation should be positively discriminated against another). It must be brought in line with the European Convention and the EU Charter. The stupid divorce debate is now only down to discrimination as any Maltese EU citizens can procure a divorce in line with the law of any of the other 26 EU member states.
Malta cannot simply do nothing about it. The divorce judgment will then be registered in Malta in accordance with the Brussels II regulation. No minister can interfere; much less any scarlet-attired person!
Hence, the point is about the haves and the have-nots, about those who can afford to fly out and fork money unnecessarily to obtain "a fundamental right" and those who, for one reason or other, cannot undertake such a venture in regard to the individual`s intimate realms.
Spiritual (sic) organisations' beliefs do not come within this framework of logical thought and lucid perception .This outright discrimination merits a case against the political authorities that should be sued for damages. Let the people be respected by their representatives or else let the latter give up the duties and responsibilities they are unable, unwilling and incompetent to handle and obligingly implement.
The purposely long-drawn argument that the country needs more discussions, debates, dissections before it can conclude about divorce is as stale as clothes that have not been washed for a long time.
Self-proclaimed celibates must not be allowed to distract the country anymore by their ridiculous, selfish and unreasonable gibberish (it is not an argument anymore as it defies logic) utterances!
The present political leadership is afraid to focus on the realities of the people they claim they represent. Everyone is aware of this; each one has concluded why a long time ago...
Dr Bezzina has long been advocating the legalisation of divorce, setting up, years ago, The Malta Divorce Movement.