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Shock Jocks? Homosexual Inferences Not Defamatory, Judge Rules

By ADF Alliance Alert

NJ Law Journal (Law.com): "U.S. District Judge Joel Pisano predicted the state Supreme Court, which insisted on equal protection for same-sex couples in 2006, would be unlikely to 'legitimize discrimination against gays and lesbians' by treating a homosexual reference as a slur. The ruling, in Murphy v. Millenium Radio Group, 08-cv-1743, is a loss for freelance photographer Peter Murphy, who complained that Craig Carton and Ray Rossi, hosts of the "Jersey Guys" show on WKXW 101.5 FM, 'derogatorily inferred' he was a homosexual during a 45-minute segment."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 05, 2010 (boomark / email).