Fr. David Muscat writes an open letter to the editor of Malta Today on his Facebook page.
Dear Editor of Malta Today,
When in January I wrote a Facebook post in defence of Abner Aquilina, who had once been both an altar boy, and a passionate member of a parish band club, I was virtually crucified. Because it is apparently more culpable to claim that sexual abuse by homosexuals is worse than any fantastical claims of the occult activity or demonic possession in a secular court of a state whose government vaunts about the separation of church and state. God knows how many pedophiles hounded Abner for service and into the psychiatric deterioration that broke him! God only knows the number of libertine men that sought this rent boy out for the satisfaction of their own depravities! But pointing this out is anathema in our current moral vacuum. Our wannabe cardinal in tandem with our liberal organizations, the Faculty of Social Wellbeing, our socialist government, and with the empty vessels of social justice, conspired to crucify me. All this because I stood up for this young man, once a quiet student at Saint Albert the Great college during the “good old times” of Mario Mallia. Abner’s life was broken by the depravity of the current moral climate in our country which you hail as progress.
Truly yours,
Fr. David Muscat
Wied il-Għasel,
Mosta.
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