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    "Gay" Is Not Slander

    By CKThompson  |  Posted June 1, 2012  |  Belleville, Illinois
     
    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/05/31/us/ap-us-court-gay-slander.html?_r=2&hp

    "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."

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