Martin Scicluna’s comment in your last issue of 15 May on the coming referendum on divorce leaves one with the impression of a person fired with zeal for a cause which he perceives as self-evident to anyone living in a pluralistic, secular and liberal democracy where Church and State are separate. Such language might befit a callow, foreign young graduate from the LSE reporting on the social mores of a small, hapless little State in southern Europe.

In all humility, I think that the Maltese are not as backward or as ingenuous as Scicluna seems to suggest, even if they do not squirm at the thought that their lives might well be guided by the Good Shepherd. No, the good folk that are prepared to listen to their pastors are not necessarily a bunch of stupid sheep.

The divorce issue has now been flogged to the point of tedious exhaustion. What I feel may still be enlightening is to look into the personal interest of some of the more clamorous and loquacious of our campaigners for divorce.

J.A. Muscat

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