Mark Grech, Sliema
The secular media and sexual health
I read the editorial in The Times of November 18 entitled The Sexual Health Policy Controversy and was bemused by the dig at the secular media in trying to get to grips with the current STD epidemic raging in Malta. And here I was thinking The Times was a secular publication. How wrong could I be?
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Mark Grech
Nov 20th 2009, 14:27
@Patrik Larsson:
You misunderstand my point. In the editorial of 18th November The Times was critical of 'secular publications' therby implying that it (The Times) did not see itself as such.
Indeed the tone and content of the editorial (especially the first half) could quite easily have been lifted from or indeed transcibed into a church or parish magazine, with no regard for the real society we live in. This was much more than taking the religious voice into account. It was being chief cheer-leader for the church's position.
Which for me, as a health professional, is a missed opportunity. It could use its role as an opinion maker in leading for practical and pragmatic change in dealing with what is, in effect, a silent and ignored epidemic in Malta. Rather than moralising and using wishful thinking as a strategy.
Kurt Mifsud
Nov 20th 2009, 13:31
@Patrik Larsson
Oh really? What about my different religious voice? Ain't a Maltese citizen as well or I have no right?
Franco Farrugia
Nov 20th 2009, 11:04
@ Mr Larrson - I suggest that you google up the term, then, so that you will be in for a few surprises! Pffft!
Patrik Larsson
Nov 20th 2009, 10:35
Secular does not mean you take away the religious voice.