LEGISLATORS AND THE “UPSTAGING” OF GOD….

The questions are often asked: What is the common good and how to find it? Is it a subjective notion, an elastic and malleable concept? Can it vary from person to person and what to do about it in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society of believers, non-believers, different faiths and fallen-aways?

We might as well face it: The common good is ONE; it derives from the Teachings of Christ, Second Person of the Holy Trinity. Its source is to be found in the social message of the Church He Himself founded to be sole custodian and definitive interpreter of His Teachings and of the lifestyle He so lovingly entreated us to embrace.

Christ knew, and so does the well-formed conscience know, that the easiest way to an erroneous relativism, a misconceived individualism, a sure-fire way of falling into error, is for mankind to distance itself from this SINGLE font of Divine and Eternal Truths handed down by God Himself! The solution then, for legal minds who have not been bowled over by a deceptive world, and for politicians of goodwill, is simple: Go back to this ONE-AND-ONLY source of evergreen TRUTHS which no age can ever change simply because they are ageless and forever: God is no fool who did not foresee till the end of time.

For the legislator who is a convinced catholic there is no problem: Such person knows beyond any doubt that the WHOLE truth lies in the source of his beliefs, regardless of what the people may think or want. And all responsible legislation must be based completely on this source. .When God told us how to live for our own good here and hereafter, He spoke for all mankind without exception and, being God, he foresaw the different mentalities, the multiple controversies and divergence of opinion that the various ages would produce. So He taught for every age till time morphs into eternity…..

The legislator, then, must act like a well-trained and conscientious, moral parent who, sure of what is good or bad for his child, does not give it what it wants or thinks it needs; but only what is really good for it. The personal beliefs of individuals who will be affected by legislation should lose all relevance if they run counter to his/her certainties, since legislators are duty-bound to legislate for the common good. And once the common good has been established and its authoritative source identified, legislators become conscience-bound to remain faithful to its tenets. Their responsibility before God to whom they will be held accountable should make them who shirk it shudder. It should send a chill down the spine of those who would pander to societal whims or reach out for approbation or the retention of their parliamentary seats.

The common good, therefore, is objective. What is bad does not become good by majority vote, or because the majority would practise it and wants it signed into law. And since good-catholic legislators know the medicine, they cannot give sugar-coated poison without falling down on their jobs, no matter how vociferously it is demanded. Armed with the ENTIRE and OBJECTIVE TRUTH and the sure-footedness which it engenders, the genuinely-catholic legislators can not but base their conduct on the UNIVERSAL Guiding Principles of the Holy Catholic Church regardless of what their countrymen believe or want, no matter what the people’s different convictions may be.

No creation can upstage its Creator; no human being can do better than God; no mere mortal can devise a way of living more conducive to inner peace and serenity than that proposed by The Author of all Life. Any futile attempt at one-upmanship on God is bound to end in failure and destruction. Above all, it is an affront to God and to human dignity and a disservice to the community and to the people they have sworn to serve…..

Marcus Flores
marcus_flores@omvol.net

Thanks for the compliment. I am married to a Maltese and would be hard pressed to find a more amiable race of people.

However I think you’ll find that the predominant Maltese attitude is expressing excessive and often misdirected displays of passion when a more logical approach may be more appropriate oh Mr Baxxter with the saucy name. Had it not been, perhaps it might have been more apparent to you that we share the same viewpoint.

As you correctly concluded, the law is the issue that needs addressing here – not Dr Vassallo’s views and especially not his right to express them. However, as you might imagine, this is easier said than done.

The Citylights cinema is a case in point: everyone knew what kind of movies were shown there, but when the government decided to finally enforce the no-porn law after god knows how many years of toleration, I don’t remember hearing of anyone protesting or calling for the law to be changed.

While the laws on pornography and other forms of censorship remain as they are, there is nothing that will stop this government or the next from enforcing them whenever it sees fit.

Moreover, while pornography is merely tolerated and not openly legalised, there is nothing to regulate it – meaning that child pornography, rape videos, and other less savoury examples of the genre are indirectly tolerated also.

Jomar, the Hon. Minister is likely to consider your salary request an OBSCENITY.

Mike, can you provide any links to internet news on this?

I cannot see how money laundering can be carried out watching a porn channel in a hotel at a rate of maybe Euro 10 per night, when dinner in a hotel is likely to cost Euro 40 or more, and daily laundry bills are likely to add to around that figure also. Are you going to suggest that hotel chains are being investigated for money laundering on dinner – and laundry?

JAB, Australia has a Labour government. Maybe it is a case that “Labour politicians are a weird lot.”

Pat, yours is not a bad idea. What I had in mind was a Sex Tax.

jomar, re. the 40,000 Euro and no results: I love you, and I want to have your babies.

CHRIST! What a typically Maltese attitude. Then let’s change the fricking law, for god’s sake.

And I don’t think there are any “porn crusaders” here. “Anti-idiocy crusaders” more like.

@ David Buttigieg

U ejja Mr. Buttigieg that’s not the point. Of course it serves that twat right. I, however was adding on to E.C.G.’s comment. Porn sites are the most visited in the whole wide world. It’s a statistic, check the web.