Posted on 05/29/2004 9:33:41 PM PDT by freedom44
BOSTON (AP) A federal judge has ruled that stating that someone is homosexual does not libel or slander them, particularly in light of new court decisions granting gays more rights.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner came as she threw out a lawsuit by a former boyfriend of pop singer Madonna who claimed he was libeled because his name appeared in a photo caption in a book about Madonna under a picture of Madonna walking with a gay man.
''In 2004, a statement implying that an individual is a homosexual is hardly capable of a defamatory meaning,'' Gertner wrote in the ruling issued Friday.
Courts in other jurisdictions are split on whether stating that someone is a homosexual is defamatory, Gertner wrote in the 23-page opinion.
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But if you call a homo a homo that constitutes hate speech....
Do that pinger thang!
This judge may think -- or assert -- that being called a homo isn't slander, but she's an idiot if she thinks the vast majority of Americans think the same.
Better not tell tom cruz. All over hollyweird actors and actresses have just had a bulls eye painted on their backs by the "outing" crowd.
It IS a slander and derrogatory. This judge is nutz.
This really screws up hate crime speech laws.
(btw not again its a woman judge. Her background is suspect. Ladies can anyone shed some light? You have teh woman Mass SCJ, Ginsbert and OConner, and now this one. I have had my fair experience with the political leanings of women lawyers, almost to a one, democrat and very left of center.)
U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner is a homosexual.
Does it still offend them if you call them a Faggot or Dike?
Its really getting tough being an outspoken Homophobe.
Well she may not consider it defamatory, but I figure a jury will consider it "fighting words"...don't sue, kick buns...
So is Martin Finucane, the Globe reporter.
???!!!?!
All reporters who cover the "homosexual beat" are homosexuals. Reporters know that to be labeled the homosexuality reporter is bad for the career.
So is "salad tossing butt-munch" not libelous either???
This is the type of thing the media will try to burry.
What about world net daily? newsmax?
"""Homosexual Federal judge says being called a homosexual is not derrogatory.""
This does prove the hypocracy of hate crimes. They just reworded the concept of Owellian Thought crime.
Where's I'm from, calling someone a homosexual is fighting words.
Or, in plain English, if you call a faggot a faggot, and he it **is** a faggot, a tort action for slander by you against it cannot possibly succeed (unless, of course, the jury disregard both the law and the judge's instructions).
That's a crime but its not insulting according to the doublespeak left.
What does a homo say to his partner if he doesn't want sex? Not tonight honey, I have a hemmorhoid?
So questioning someone's manhood isn't derogatory?
Figues this decision came out of the Commonwealth of Mass.
Is this judge a dyke? (I think that is what shemp was asking)
Cawl me that again and O'wl thwap you thilly!
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