[WikiEN-l] Joseph Farah: Another dissatisfied customer

[Ken Arromdee]

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.)