Monday 16th June 2008, Blog: Andrew Borg Cardona
Excerpt from the article:
Muscat will have to be a bit careful, too, about the way he puts over his personal opinion. It's a refreshing change for a politician actually to have a personal opinion, even if it does get him slightly knotted up as happened when he was responding to the Christian fundamentalist and the Gay Rights fundamentalist who were pressing him on divorce and gay marriage.
Just as an aside, if we're going to start getting all het up about same-sex marriage (as in, having all manner of spasms because most interpretations of the Christian message prohibit it) someone had better amend the law, because from what I'm told, said law doesn't actually lay down that marriage has to be between men and women. As far as I'm concerned, the Church should stay out of this and let the State regulate partnership rights (i.e. marriage and the dissolution thereof) between people who want to regulate them civily, which is more than Muscat said, though I can't blame him for not wanting to risk the wrath of the God Botherers.
My Comment:
Regarding the term Gay Rights Fundamentalist, Andrew Borg Cardona is referring to Ms. Gabi's Calleja's (from the Malta Gay Rights Movement) intervention on Xarabank (13th June 2008, watch it on www.di-ve.com). She pressed Joseph Muscat, the newly elected leader of the MLP for his stand on civil partnership and gay marriage. I found his reply quite confusing to be honest. I also consider the term Gay Rights Fundamentalist when referring to Ms. Calleja's intervention as inappropriate.
Many comments have been posted on the Times website (see link above)
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