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UPDATE: No to divorce campaign insist that their billboards have nothing to do with the PN
Nationalist Party billboards were carrying anti-divorce slogans this morning. The slogan was on a violet background - the same colour as the IVA (yes) movement. But later No to divorce spokesman Kevin Papagiorcopolo, who until two weeks ago was the Curia's PRO insisted that the billboard were contracted from a private contractor.
UPDATE:
The No to divorce campaign said that the billboards it had on display were carried out through the services of a private contractor not the PN, The spokesman refused to mention who the private contractor was and what fee was being paid for the billboards. The spokesman also refused to divulge where the posters of the billboards were created.
The location of the billboard and the stands are located in precisely the same place and use the same structure as those of the Nationalist party.
Mr Papagiorcopolo said that the movement would divulge all relevant details about the campaign after the referendum.
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The campaign for No have involved several top Nationalist militants, and they include Anton Attard who is also the PBS CEO and Lawrence Zammit, director of MISCO and a key strategist for the Nationalist party. Other key promoters for the NO campaign are (Father) Joe Borg, a media studies lecturer and a former PRO for the Catholic Church.
The No movement is supported by the Maltese Catholic Church and the Nationalist party and is campaigning against the introduction of divorce, it has also set up its first billboards with the slogan - FLIMKIEN GHALL-ULIEDNA - Together for our children. These were erected yesterday evening in crossroads in Malta. The slogan follows the Nationalist party's slogan, FLIMKIEN KOLLOX POSSIBLI - Together everything is possible.
The billboards are part of a campaign to highlight the fear that the introduction of divorce will bring upon Maltese society. The YES movement has countered this argument by stating that divorce is not the cause for matrimonial discord but rather serves to give a second chance to those who wish to remarry.
Rayman Jumbo •
The imposition of the majority on any minority has to stop. We are living supposedly in a civilised country and in a civilised era. By legislating Divorce, no one is going to force any happily married couple to divorce their love for one another. So those of you who are happily married, what is there to fear from Divorce? If you are so much united in Love with your partner, Divorce or No Divorce makes no difference to you!
There are however couples who for one reason or another, are not as lucky as you are and their marriage fails to work. What right do I or you have to prohibit these people from finding new Love and start afresh? Why do we always want to create fear out of nothing?
Igor P. Shuvalov •
"the movement would divulge all relevant details about the campaign after the referendum." Why 'after the referendum'. Would publishing details belie what is being said to-day that the Nationalist Party has no connection at all with the setting up of these billboards?
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vera li tal-iva(pl) ghamlu xi billboards favur id-divorzju hu dawn uzaw it-tfal.
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Manuel Mangani talking about stooping to new lows surely you meant cremona and gonzi.
Chris Tanthi •
How pathetic to try and connect "Flimkien għal uliedna"with "Flimkien kollox possibbli". On the issue of divorce, MT stoops to new lows everyday.
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Jitnejku bin-nies minghalihom! Flok 1 % kull sena jinqsu milli imorru il-quddies sa sentejn ohra , it-tnaqqis se jkun exponential. Il-Knisja kemm messa hadet low profile u accettat li n-nies mhumiex moghoz; hafna minnhom ghandhom mohh, jafu x'inhu tajjeb jew hazin! Imma, le they want to lump it down our throats: that we will never accept! Se tkissru Knisja! Mela ahna imgienen bhal dak il-mahnix ta Angelik: iwaqqa il-Knisja ghan nejk u l-Kurja tifrah!
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EFA only inspired me to do one good thing in life. That's to go and vote YES FOR DIVORCE! I wasn't interested in the divorce issue, until his holiness EFA made a couple of statements. Now I don't have any doubts,YES FOR DIVORCE!
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If your marriage is good, than why are you going to vote NO ? When you are voting NO , you are saying NO to the other people who want to have a second chance in marriage. Do you really want to do this to others, by not allowing others to marriage ?
Just think, if you have a good marriage why will you deny this to others, that is not right!
if they are saying that your kids when they grow up, doesn't make sense, cause again if he/she will have a god marriage than they will not need a divorce.
Banning umbrellas does not stops rain.
banning divorce does not stops marital breakdown.
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ZWIEG LI JISKADI?
LE, GRAZZI..........POGGUTI AHJAR!!!!!!
kaktus
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All you liberal Nationalist supporters.
Don't you see how your glorious party has been hijacked by the Catholic fundamentalists and Opus Dei ?
Resolve to cleanse your party from the ealots, and refrain from electing them to their cushy seat.
Better still, withhold your vote to the Curia party outright.
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Start celebrating. The result - whatever it is - will be a blow to the Church in Malta. Anything over 40% represents a cris for the Catholic Church ... and they know it. They also know it is a matter of time before wake up to the deceit that is the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
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Wenz,
You are better served if you buy THE SUN.
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@Fumarole--
Me too. The times (small t intentional) is very good at censoring anti government/anti church comments, which proves it's leanings. I stopped buying their rag a long time ago. In fact I don't even waste my time reading their on-line version either.
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John, don't expect anything better from a paper whose directors are hard line nationalists . The PN, the church and the Times work hand in hand. No one can deny that. Birds of a feather. Try to write something against the government in the Times and you'll surely be censored. I gave up my efforts, but not before I let them know what I think about them !!.
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Apart from the billboards, did anyone notice that the Times only seems to carry anti divorce articles every other day?
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FLIMKIEN GHALL-ULIEDNA!
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Hekk se nagmlei Jien - nivvota IVA!
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Zwieg li Jiskadi! - Bhall ma skadiet il-knisja Maltiija?
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Banning Umbrellas
Dos not stop rain.
Banning divorce does
Not stop marital
Breakdown.
Vote YES for divorce.
Igor P. Shuvalov •
Allura jekk ma jkollniex id-divorzju, jispiccaw iz-zwigijiet li jiskadu?
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The Church hypocrisy has convinced me to vote YES.
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Zwieg li jiskadi? ...IVA DIK HIJA IR REALTA. Ghalhekk NIVVOTA IVA!!!!!!!!!
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YES 4 DIVORCE.
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send a message to gonzi and the church vote yes.
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The church is reverting back to the sixteys when it was a sin to vote PL .
and thrown in the MIZBLA .
Our forefathers remember this very well especially those who were banned from receiving holy comunion just because their only sin was SUPPORTING PL
From what has happened to Dr Schembri I now feel much stronger in voting YES for the referendum o pass
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What galls me is the fact that those campaigning against divorce have their mind at rest that if something happens to their marriage they will always get an annulment. They have the money and connections. I speak from experience. The daughter of a relative has just separated. Now her family are staunch Catholics they go to the komunita and irtiri and all that BS. They would not dream of voting yes BUT THEY HAVE ALREADY APPLIED FOR AN ANNULMENT: BLOODY HYPOCRITS.
I bet my last Euro that some of these zealots have a Russian sexbomb on the side, for a little grumpt. They are entitled to relax after all that campaigning.
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@fed up. My friend, the church did NOT give the land to government. Government is paying over E40, 000,000 yearly to the church under the guise of educational grants !!. No wonder they are expanding their schools. It won't be long before education in Malta will cease to be FREE . That's where we're heading. Mark my words.
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Remeber 'Il-Knisja tas-Silenzju' way back when the USSR and its colonies used to silence the Holy Church? Well, our Church took a leaf out of those episodes and is now busy 'silencing' anyone who dares oppose its temporal power in Malta: Dr Schembri is a case in point.
Remember when' human rights' were implored when foreign Governments silenced Catholic priest or Bishops-as recently as in China?
But by 'human rights' the Church understands ( especially the local Borgia's dominated Church) any threat to its material and monetary power, and does not give a dam when it tries to coerce and bully people to its submiton: otherwise damnation will be implored.
Ar.nt these abuses of 'human rights' by the Church.?
And last but not least ,is it true that when the 1995 marriage amendments made by the representative of the 'liberal party of Malta' -the PN, the Church acceded to give the multi million lands it had accumulated in Malta, to the Government ONLY if the PN gave back to the Church the power-temporal power- to be recognised as the sole arbitrer of religious marrriages in Malta?
What is the relationship between God and land?
They are both diamentrically opposed; no wonder, the APS bank, whose major shareholder is the Church ( Apostleship and Prayers Bank????) made a multi milliion euro profit, that is material goodies not spiritual goodies, no elite clergyman was seen at the Annual general meeting, lest the 'fidili' will see that 'Mammon' rules ok!
Christ did not have any belongings in this world, He had no testament, He left no material inheritance; only spiritual ones.
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Same as the 60's. A word to the Curia regime." A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake."
And yes church annulment and divorce are the same. Divorce is cheaper to
get.
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We all know what we got after FLIMKIEN KOLLOX POSSIBLI so don't expect any better from FLIMKIEN GHALL-ULIEDNA!
YES for freedom of choice
YES for the dignity of the individual
YES FOR DIVORCE
Igor P. Shuvalov •
U jigu jghidulna li din f'din il-kampanja ma tidholx il-politika?
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Banning Umbrellas
Dos not stop rain.
Banning divorce does
Not stop marital
Breakdown.
Vote YES for divorce.
