“Marry” can be used both as a transitive and an intransitive verb.

You can see that he is translating from Maltese. ‘Meta ragel jizzeweg’ in Maltese should be ‘When a man gets married’ in English. Otherwise you have to say :’When a man marries x’

Although, I have no idea what will happen of the minority, yet very significant, liberal faction.

Why? Simply because Dr. Joseph Muscat and his wife declared themselves in favour of divorce. Was it not Gonzi PN who risked political suicide by declaring itself against divorce?

From a potentially budding statesman Lawrence Gonzi has become a bitter disappointment.

Not exactly. Family as strictly husband and wife with children exclusive to both husband and wife and no one else, while certainly a good idea, is a human construct.

While one finds monogamous couplings in a small number of other species (like, for instance, the seahorse), even in such examples, monogamous couplings are the general rule – not without exceptions.

His days at Azzjoni Kattolika are over and done with. If he is a puppet on a string controlled by the Maltese Catholic Church he should resign due to a conflict of interest .

Religious fundamentalists abdicate reason if it conflicts with their faith.

[Daphne – When A MAN marries? What does he marry – a dog? A cat?]

2. Divorce brings about frivolous marriages. Frivolous divorce brings about even more frivolous marriages. This won’t happen today but surely and slowly things will change. Divorce changes mentality and that is what makes it something to be avoided.

The family is a state of fact and is, broadly speaking, determined by nature. Families have always existed, as far as we can know, and pre-dated law.