Letter to the editor: Sex education column was lazy journalism

Re: Ontario needs to get with the (sex-ed) program — Nov. 4

Here we go again.

Regarding this column by Martin Regg Cohn, anyone who doesn't get unquestioningly — preferably enthusiastically — behind a proposed revised sex education curriculum (or at least the media's version of it) is summarily labelled as part of "an unruly, unholy alliance of religious extremists and right-wing opportunists" and "know-it-alls."

Progressive Conservative leadership hopeful Christine Elliott is derided as "supposedly progressive." (I don't know which half of this term is more suspect, the "supposedly" or the "progressive.")

The game here is to label so you can dismiss. It saves the bother of actually listening, respecting alternative viewpoints and discerning where elements of truth/wisdom might lie.

I am tired of this lazy journalism. Is it too much to ask for a little objectivity, open-mindedness and responsible use of language?

G. Francesca Van Houtven

Guelph

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Letter to the editor: Sex education column was lazy journalism