Catholics in favour of divorce: ‘issue has been sabotaged’

The movement, ‘Catholics: Yes because it is a right' has said the referendum issue has been totally sabotaged and argued that the referendum was “not about the moral approval of anything”.

“It is about whether one accepts or refuses the States's imposition of one particular moral code upon the whole population,” the group, which is composed of Catholics in favour of divorce, said.

“Catholics who vote ‘yes’ are consistent with Catholic teaching, unlike those who have erroneously turned the referendum into a moral legitimisation of divorce.”

The movement said those who are against divorce have “conveniently chosen to present the referendum question in such a distorted way in order to confound the electorate, especially Catholics.”

The movement also hit out at those who branded Catholics in favour of divorce as “voters ‘à la carte, false Catholics, wolves dressed as sheep, brigands, traitors of Jesus Christ, and the like.”

"Voting ‘yes’ doesn’t mean one morally or religiously approves divorce. We call upon all Catholics, whether they are morally in favour or against divorce (for this is beside the point), to vote ‘yes’ in the coming referendum,” the movement said.