NY Court Rules Calling Someone Gay Isn't Slander

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    ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A court says it's no longer slander in New York to falsely call someone gay.

    A mid-level appeals court on Thursday wiped out decades of rulings, including its own, to say that society no longer treats false comments that someone is gay, lesbian or bisexual as defamation. Without defamation, there is no longer slander, the court ruled.

    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/05/31/us/ap-us-court-gay-slander.html?_r=2&hp
     
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    Why would it ever have been anyway?
     
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    can i still call mexicans white?
     
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    what about if you are a fan of teh cawk
     
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    A new generation doesn't consider it fighting words to be called gay. I suggest you not yell it at an older guy though.
     
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    Just call him queer, to old people that means just means weird right?

    Keep Portland queer!
     
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    ...this needs to be made into a bumper sticker ASAP! :biglaugh:
     
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