On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Andrew Cates wrote:
Hmm. I am a committed Christian too but I completely failed to understand why calling Farah "a noted homosexual" is a "defamatory accusation"? Or libel or slander for that matter. Very puerile certainly maybe...but defamatory? C'mon.
This is disingenuous. There are quite a few people who think homosexuality is bad and wouldn't like being accused of it. There are also quite a few people who think homosexuality is bad and therefore use it as an accusation.
Just because we ourselves don't think the accusation is bad should be irrelevant when deciding how to handle BLPs.
(Besides, in this case, the target is married to a woman, which automatically gives the accusation defamatory implications.)