About Gays in the Village

Poor old Edwin Vassallo. He kicked off a new chatterfest with his declaration that “what heppens in the bedroom is, up to a point, the government’s business, because it often had to solve problems caused there”. Now I am sure that Edwin Vassallo does not really mean that the government will be adding to the spam already in your inbox about erectile malfunction, viagra and cialis or solving vaginitis issues. Nope this was the Chairman of the House Social Affairs Committee discussing their latest topic: “the situation of homosexuals and transgender individuals in Malta”.

Apparently the committee learnt that what happens in the bedroom often ends up before the state to do something about it – citing as examples (wait for it) single parents and teenage pregancies. Once again I cannot vouch for the reporting on the times but surely – surely – Edwin Vassallo is not equating problems in some hypothetical bedroom peopled with homosexuals resulting in a teenage pregancy? By who? The Gay Holy Spirit? And single parents? Who? Gay Geppetto? Sorry Pinocchio if you thought being carved out of wood and having the wrong part of your body grow longer at the wrong time was a problem then think again – daddy is a homo.

Following that mother of all non sequiturs the Times tried to fan the fire by throwing in a few choice quotes from MGRM’s Gabi Calleja about creative ways to have children. I can’t wait for the comments to get rolling on that one. Meanwhile politicians were still having that tit for tat. Vassallo (PN) was reacting to Anthony Zammit (PL) who had repeated what Progressive Joseph had said, which was basically “the state did not care what happened in the bedroom”. Professor (yes, professor) Anthony Zammit’s contribution to the discussion (apart from parrotting his leader) was this: “I am happy to say that I have a lot of gay friends” adding he was never ashamed to be seen with them (not like David Laws then). Anthony Zammit’s declaration reminded me of this episode from Mock the Week (replace “black” with “homosexual” and you see how this kind of statement only fits in a comedy scenario):

The came the coup de grace. Both parties have their fair share of ugly heads that are best kept below the radar. PL has that Anglu Farrugia shooting illogical theories every other day. This time it was the PN’s very own Catholic Mullah who gave us the loveliest and juciest of quotes:

“Dr Fenech Adami asked MGRM representatives whether in homosexual couples there were “mother and father” roles. In his and his wife’s experience, Dr Fenech Adami said, when they tried filling each other’s roles the results weren’t that good”.

Well. I guess if Beppe has trouble switching roles then everybody else does. How’s that for a non sequitur?

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