I'm sure the keyboard warriors over at Reddit screaming about freedom of speech were all over this one, yeah yeah... nah.
A Parisian court has ruled that using the term homophobe to describe somebody is defamatory, despite context.
The ruling comes as Laure Pora, former president of the Paris branch of ACT UP was ordered to pay €800 to the anti-LGBT group La Manif Pour Tous.
On top of that Pora had to cough up the €1500 in judicial costs.
ACT UP staged a protest in 2013 against the Jerome Lejeune Foundation. A pro-life foundation which provide research, care and advocacy for people with genetic intellectual disabilities.
A protest was staged because of the foundations support for La Manif Pour Tous and because they employed Ludivine La Rochère, the founder of the group.
The organisation’s lawyer, Henri de Beauregard, said: “Describing La Manif Pour Tous as homophobic is a criminal offence.”
The courts initially deemed Manif Pour Tous’ complaint “inappropriate for a procedural problem”, reported the french publication Le Monde. Cont.
Story from - Pink News
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