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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsBoissoin Wins Important Free Speech Victory
By Ed Brayton
I've written over the course of several years about the Stephen Boissoin case in Canada, where the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission found a minister guilty of "hate speech" and fined him $5,000 for expressing his anti-gay views in a letter to a newspaper. The commission also ordered him not to say anything negative about homosexuality again.
A judge has now reversed that decision and restored Boissoin's right to free speech.
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