Well, it is closer to defamation, if we are at law. But why must we be at law? Community standards are the problem. Neither blacks, nor Jews, no homosexuals may be subjected to such public ridicule. And he sure does not do it for free. He is playing to an audience that laps this stuff up and pays to hear more. In the end it is up to Catholics to shut this guy up. But we are at handicap, because the people who operate this "show" share his sentiments and because the American Church is not unified in the way that it was fifty years ago.
Am I to take it, then, that you are not proposing that Catholics simply counter Leary's speech with speech of their own? And if so, by what alternative means do you propose "to shut this guy up."