Nobody is saying that marriage breakdowns and subsequent cohabitation are OK, but it happens all the time so from a “societal” point of view there has to be some sort of regulation. Honour-among-thieves sort of thing.

Divorce won’t add to the existing “chaos”. It is purely an ethical/moral issue.

It is bad enough that people can’t or won’t adhere to a set of established and proven values, but issuing an “official” declaration that it’s OK to look upon marriage as something that can be undone is something else again.

it spells WOW not whaw, you ignorant twat! Troy do us all a favour and go suck on your thumb in the corner before coming here blubbering nonsense!

[Daphne – Errrr, I guess you don’t do sarcasm or irony. Read back Ray Spiteri’s comments and try to work out why Troy wrote WHAW and not Wow.]

Whaw! Ray Spiteri likes Joseph’s, and his madding crowd’s speaches, how sweeeeeeet.

Ray, what does “ex pn” mean? Does it mean you are now part of the PL?

Tell us, how does it feel to be part of the same party of the 1970s which the PN fought against on the streets and against which the PN has now won 6 out of 7 general elections…and one out of one referendum?

Interested bystander do you remember Dave Allen?

In comparison to my mate’s views, Allen’s take on religion and religious orders would be considered as a very mild curry not hot enough to feature on the menu of a entry level Indian curry house.

So I am not happy to repeat them!

Ask your mate what he thinks of the Roman Catholic Church declaring nul and void the marriages of couples who have had children.

Lou Bondi does not have to take a stand of the sort “If the PN is against divorce, I will resign.”

I see the choice in favour or against divorce as the choice between a society founded on the family unit to one that is founded on the individual and I am not comfortable with the latter.

If cohabitation law is moving to something to that same affect, than I am not even comfortable with that.

When faced with this decision one is then free to choose what forms his decision, for some it could be the Roman Catholic Church and for other is could be Disney Land

For all it matters a British acquaintance of mine thinks divorce has ruined the UK – he is a hard core atheist.

Actually we already have the concept of no fault in separation whereby there is no “guilty spouse”. No fault divorce would be nothing new.