Comments on: Judge Says Gay Claims Not Defamatory

By: belicoso

belicoso — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:06:10 +0000

I'm sure Howard was counting on the Cosby lawsuit money to pay for his legal team to keep him out of jail ever since the police picked him up for being a part of the illegal acquisition of the prescription drugs that were ultimately the cause of Anna Nicole's death. Howard must have been incredibly short-sighted, totally missing the point that his exploitation of Anna by keeping her in a daze to try and benefit from her active estate claim did harbor the risk of her suffering from an overdose thereby killing his golden goose.

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By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:20:24 +0000

No, it isn't fair game. Prevailing thoughts about the etiology of homosexuality are still in the "juror's box". A judge cannot decide that homosexuality is normal in this way to try to set a precident....which is what he was up to. So if judge "A" decides that everyone thinks homosexuality is normal then case "B" can be found that homosexuals can marry.

I get where this is going...

Homosexuality is a fetish b-e-h-a-v-i-o-r. There are no homosexual people. There are no homosexual people [it needed repeating]. There is not one person more or less predisposed to the associative conditioning of sexual imprinting than another. What is true is that we as a majority still have the opinion that homosexual behavior is not a behavior that we want to condone and promote to future generations. We recognize, as do the those afflicted with it that it can be both taught and learned. Don't challenge me on this because I will cite "bi-curious" again and the oft used "chicken" [young hetero men who are by nature hyper-sexual and who therefore can have their lust redirected to homosexual behavior in adolescence, the critical age for imprinting] aspects to show that homosexuals actively seek recruits from the overall heterosexual population.

Ergo, one judge declaring, wrongly, that homosexuality isn't seen by the majority of people as a deviant condition is misleading to say the least.

By: Lit3Bolt

Lit3Bolt — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:13:03 +0000

I guess it would depend on how salacious the details of said sexual acts are, pacatrue. The burden is on the accuser to prove that his or her reputation has suffered tremendous damage from the slur of the defendant, but there's also a burden on the defendant to prove the claim is NOT libelous and is in fact, “true.” If the NYT printed such an article as truth, then they could sue and win, because then they would have to come clean about all the sources for the “details.” If you have falsely claimed to have seen the President's um, “stimulus package” then you're in trouble I think.

On the other hand, if it's clearly fiction or parody, then you're protected by the First Amendment.

By: JWindish

JWindish — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:00:31 +0000

No, I don't know. I wonder whether any of our other readers do?

By: pacatrue

pacatrue — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:52:10 +0000

Hey, Joe, do you know how this compares to claims about hetero sex? Is it defamatory to publish an article that, I don't know, pick a famous woman, Hillary Clinton did a make gigolo after Obama's inaugaration in the back of a Ford Pinto and then add in salacious details to make it sound really gross? Is that fair game legally? I know it's slimy morally, but I don't know about legally. (Not that I have plans to do so…. )

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Posts about Howard Stern as of August 15, 2009 » The Daily Parr — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:40:08 +0000

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