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‘My friend Jeffrey quoted me out of context’ – Pierre Cordina
DJ Pierre Cordina says JPO quoted him out of context but reiterates that divorce allows spouses to rethink their decision to marry.
29 March 2011, 12:00am
Miriam Dalli
Miriam Dalli
2 min read
Anti-divorce campaigner Pierre Cordina has asked MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando to “quote [him] well” in a letter he penned to the Nationalist organ il-mument.
The newspaper gave prominence to the letter, which it published in its news section – signed by “Pierre (and Mireille) Cordina” – the couple who made news following an interview with The Times, when Cordina stated: “if the state had a divorce law it would be very easy for me to start getting nagging thoughts like: ‘Am I really going to spend all my life with Mireille?’ Every day I will start considering the option of divorce.”
But Cordina claims Pullicino Orlando quoted him out of context, but reiterated that divorce would allow spouses rethink their decision to marry at every moment.
During the parliamentary debate on Wednesday 16 March, just before parliament voted in favour of the divorce referendum, Pullicino Orlando referred to Cordina’s comments: “A DJ and member of the anti-divorce movement, Pierre Cordina, admitted divorce will give him the chance to immediately leave his wife and find another partner.”
Pullicino Orlando added: “I am certain [Pierre] had nothing to say… and couldn’t thing of anything good to say.”
In a reaction, Cordina claimed Pullicino Orlando had quoted him out of context, and had only chosen to quote parts of what he had said. “It is clear that what I had said, and until now is according to law, was that marriage lasts until ‘death do us part’. The decision to marry is a decision for life and a decision one cannot rethink every time a problem arises during marriage.”
“If the divorce law is introduced, one can rethink his decision at every moment of his marriage,” Cordina said. “This is obvious to many, and was also explained by Archbishop Paul Cremona in more than one occasion.”
The Cordinas signed off the piece as ‘declared friends of Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’.
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Joe Borg •
QUOTE: “if the state had a divorce law it would be very easy for me to start getting nagging thoughts like: ‘Am I really going to spend all my life with Mireille?’ Every day I will start considering the option of divorce.”
If these thoughts cross one's mind, there's already a problem present in his marriage. Because in marriage one willingly vowes to spend his entire life with a partner. So having such thoughts mean that those vows were just a fake act.
Religious laws & state laws do not necessarily have to be parallel. Let's give freedom to church to abide with it's own laws and the state to have it's own as well.
"Ghati lil Cesri dak li hu ta Cesri u lil Alla dak li hu ta Alla"
After all who am I to impose my religious rules if someone has different beleifs or no beleifs at all. - Live and let live!
If divorce laws come in force all anti-divorce campaigners will still have the choice to abide by the Church's rules and refuse having a divorce. But at least we will be giving freedom to people with a failed marriage to have a second chance.
"Dak li jghaqqad Alla m'ghandux jifirdu l-bniedem" - If you beleive in God's greatness you will not beleive that a failed marriage is an act of God after all.
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Dear Pierre, divorce is not for those who think about it, but for those who really need it. do us a favour: continue enterntaining people by way of music.
happily married for 9 years, love my wife to bits and will not be an obstacle to those who can have another chance to experience the beauty of being happily married and in love.
i will vote YES for divorce.
PS: Joseph Muscat, JPO and people of their likes: thanks.
Abdullah alhrbi •
Bless him the DJ and he is so candid about his infantile perceptions. It seems some require the strategic deterrant rather than the conviction in order to keep 'professing' their love.
@ Monique
I do believe that for some that are more equal than others the thought of an easy to acquire no fault Church annulment is a very comforting thought indeed.
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How come the DJ does not wake up each single day considering separation or a church annulment from his beloved wife?
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"If this is the way Pierre and the DIVORCE MOVEMENT he forms part of really see things they have a manifestly skewed perception of the institution of marriage." (my caps)
Oooops! Freudian slip? Nooooooooo!
Andy Farrugia.
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I refer to recent statements by Pierre Cordina-my friend and fellow ‘Zebbugi’- who is also a member of the anti-divorce movement – ‘Zwieg Minghajr Divorzju’. He has tried to give the impression that I tried to mislead the House during the recent divorce debate when I referred to an interview he gave to ‘The Times’ recently (3/3/11). This is the statement I referred to during the parliamentary sitting in question:
“If the state had a divorce law it would be very easy for me to start getting nagging thoughts like: ‘Am I really going to spend all my life with Mireille?’ Every day I will start considering the option of divorce.”
I stand by what I said in the House. If this is the way Pierre and the divorce movement he forms part of really see things they have a manifestly skewed perception of the institution of marriage.
Joseph Galea •
Pierre Cordina does not want to have divorce legislation in Malta because that might tempt him to start thinking of divorce. I wonder if he has understood the implied corollary - since there is no divorce in Malta, I shall have to stick to my wife, whether I love her or not and whether she loves me or not. I doubt if this sounds complimentary to any woman with a modicum of self-esteem. Would it not sound better for a spouse to say, "I know I can divorce you anytime, but I choose to stay with you because I love you and I want to share my life with you." Cordina's statement sounds very much like that of another anti-divorce campaigner who insisted that marriage is based on duty - love does not seem to enter into the eqaution. Imagine a spouse telling the other: "I remain married to you out of a sense of duty or because there is no divorce." What a happy marriage that must be. They may remain together 'until death do them part' - and then what a relief!!
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Dear Mr Cordina, this should be an eye-opener to you about the kinds of "friends" you have; it is not just you that JPO misquoted and misrepresented; others include the Pope, Rev R Camilleri, Rev C Vella, and a host of others. The end justifies the means, in typical consummate Machiavellian style. Now what was it that Dr A Sant once said about JPO? Credibility anyone? But please spare me the crocodile tears and melodramatics!
Andy Farrugia alias
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Pierino - daqt tohodlu postu lid-Dulli bil-hmerijiet li qed tghid. Mela int ikollok tmur tahdem barra minn Malta ma tmurx ghax hemm id-divorzju. Flok izzewwigt ahjar bqajt ma djul ommok. Martin Borg tak ezempju perfett dwar il-gays. Ghomodu sew ta.
Li wiehed ikun min ikun, jista' jkun int, l-Arcisqof jew Gonzi jghid li l-lum iz-zwieg f'Malta huwa 'till death do us part' qed jghid il-hmerijiet. Il-weghda biss sfortunatament hi hekk.
Illum iz-zwieg f'Malta idum biss skond kemm iridu il-koppji. Meta parti trid titlaq lil parti l-ohra tista' tghamel hekk mil-ghada taz-zwieg u hadd ma jista' jzomma.
Fi kliem iehor Pierre, jekk int trid titlaq lil Mirelle allavolja m'hawnx ligi tad-divorzju ghal min jghix Malta, int tista' taghmel hekk. L-istess tista' taghmel Mirelle. Nahseb taf kemm hawn Maltin li jinsabu f'din is-sitwazzjoni.
Possibbli li din qatt m'ghadditlek minn mohhok?
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"................The Times, when Cordina stated: “if the state had a divorce law it would be very easy for me to start getting nagging thoughts like: ‘Am I really going to spend all my life with Mireille?’ Every day I will start considering the option of divorce.”
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Did Mr Cordina start considering of going GAY because homosexuality has been decrinalized and laws in favour of gay legislated.
How dumb and silly can one get. This Cordina guy is only trying to make a name for himself and nothing more.
