Klaus Vella Bardon's gushing enthusiasm for Proġett Impenn's anti-divorce report (August 5) knows no bounds, but has he really considered the very telling ending to this report? "Who is not part of the solution for healthy families and marriage, is part of the problem."

This is a dangerous statement that doesn't allow for neutrality. It appears to cast aspersions on all those people who choose to remain single - the "min mhux magħna kontra tagħna" philosophy. Not that healthy marriages have a "solution", of course, but one can deduce that the authors meant something along the lines of "those who don't support healthy marriages are against them". Despite Dr Vella Bardon's fulsome praise, the English used is poor.

Such a statement coming from an organisation run by aging celibate men is indeed incongruous, because it is they who deny themselves the opportunity of marriage and of founding a family. They seem to act against their own principles.

Of course, they do have the opportunity to change tack. A little dispensation and their vows of celibacy and constancy fly out of the window!

There are vows and vows, you see. Some vows are more equal than others. Not to mention all those married priests in other parts of the world. They don't like to talk about those much, especially in Malta. Ah well, at least they're founding families.

However, the real problem for Proġett Impenn and its apologists is that they regard divorce as something that disrupts (families and) marriages. This is patently incorrect and is nothing but a smokescreen.

There are tens of thousands of failed marriages in Malta, where there is - to all effects and purposes - no divorce.

To say that divorce causes marriages to fail is simply not true, but it's amazing what we can believe when we want to believe.