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Oh so if someone hurts your feelings on the radio that entitles you to 270 thousand? How weak and pathetic have we become as a nation? This sickens me.
1 posted on 08/14/2005 8:09:01 AM PDT by Byron Norris
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He should be glad they did this. It's all about gay rights isn't it? So what's the problem?


2 posted on 08/14/2005 8:12:30 AM PDT by unixfox (AMERICA - 20 Million ILLEGALS Can't Be Wrong!)
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Imagnine the shame of being outed on THE OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD.... how much would that be worth? :)


3 posted on 08/14/2005 8:13:28 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Now that taglines are cool, I refuse to have one.)
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Discreet? Hanging out in a gay bar? Like nobody else goes there? Like.....Oh, to heck with it.


4 posted on 08/14/2005 8:13:34 AM PDT by PeteB570
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"How do you live with such an embarrassment in your life? "

Maybe if he hadn't been a joto he wouldn't need to feel embarrassed.

5 posted on 08/14/2005 8:14:15 AM PDT by humblegunner (If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
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He goes shopping at gay bars and never thought he would be 'outed'. I'd say it's a reasonable outcome so why should he be awarded anything.?


6 posted on 08/14/2005 8:15:37 AM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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"It's a nightmare," Hernandez said. "How do you live with such an embarrassment in your life? How do you live when someone makes your life so insignificant? "

Guess somebody doesn't have much Gay Pride.

7 posted on 08/14/2005 8:16:48 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Be a glowworm. A glowworm's never glum. How can you be grumpy when the sun shines out your bum?)
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I'm surprised the radio station/host was not charged with a hate crime.

I'm sure gay man's lawyer was seriously working that angle, but it didn't pan "out."

8 posted on 08/14/2005 8:17:33 AM PDT by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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"It's a nightmare," Hernandez said. "How do you live with such an embarrassment in your life? How do you live when someone makes your life so insignificant? "

Hmmm,you make your own bed....you lie in it. How dare you choose to frequent these public places in full view of the public eye. Also,what kind of life are you leading when you are embarassed because someone found out?....

9 posted on 08/14/2005 8:18:06 AM PDT by oust the louse
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I thought that the constitution allowed freedom of speech. I know it has to be true, but in this case it is true.


10 posted on 08/14/2005 8:18:40 AM PDT by John D
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I am confused.
Why was he embarrassed and humiliated?
I thought homosexuality was normal?/


11 posted on 08/14/2005 8:18:55 AM PDT by mabelkitty (Lurk forever, but once you post, your newbness shines like a new pair of shoes.)
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If a man passes himself off as a San Francisco gay but he is subsequently "outed" on the radio as actually being heterosexual, can he sue and win a big award?


15 posted on 08/14/2005 8:21:01 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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Speaking out outing people, I am outing the Viking Kittens for their gay bar activities.

http://www.rathergood.com/gaybar

16 posted on 08/14/2005 8:21:23 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Bork should have had Kennedy's USSC seat and Kelo v. New London would have gone the other way.)
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This wasn't so much about a radio station outing the guy it was about his employer outing him using confidential information in his employment file......

Had it been a listener and not an employer the outcome may have been different.

The courts were right on this one.....the award was a punitive $250K for the radio station and $20K in compensatory. The judge obviously was punishing the radio station for it's extreme bad judgment and it's clear intent to hurt and embarrass the individual.

This is in no way tacit support for gay's but a clear warning to employers that employees personnel and medical records are not to be used as a weapon.

NeverGore :^)


18 posted on 08/14/2005 8:25:12 AM PDT by nevergore (“It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.”)
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So, it's OK to be gay but it's not ok for anyone to know? Exactly why is that?


19 posted on 08/14/2005 8:29:18 AM PDT by SALChamps03
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"It's a nightmare," Hernandez said.

Yeah ... what could be more embarrassing than being gay in San Francisco?

20 posted on 08/14/2005 8:31:08 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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John and Ken, please identify me as gay.


24 posted on 08/14/2005 8:41:32 AM PDT by doug from upland (The Hillary documentary is coming -- INDICTING HILLARY)
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later pingout.


25 posted on 08/14/2005 8:42:58 AM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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"How do you live with such an embarrassment in your life?"

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

26 posted on 08/14/2005 8:51:52 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("A litany of complaints is not a plan." -- G.W. Bush, regarding Sen. Kerry's lack of vision)
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I'm pretty sure they were outed as "Negroes" on 1960s radio.

And they didn't sue.

(so what makes "Gay rights" so special)

32 posted on 08/14/2005 9:21:30 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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I guess Roberto likes beefy burritos!


36 posted on 08/14/2005 11:35:49 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Life is too short to go through it clenched of sphincter and void of humor - it's okay to laugh.)
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