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Article: Panel: Dr. Laura violates ethics code.(Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ruling on radio talk show host Laura Schlessinger's)(Brief Article)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- June 21, 2000
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A Canadian broadcasting regulation panel has ruled that radio talk show host Laura Schlessinger's controversial statements about homosexuals have violated national broadcasting ethics codes. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council announced May 10 that Schlessinger's on-air claims that homosexual activity is "abnormal" and "deviant" violate the human rights provision of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' code of ethics. The council also decided that Schlessinger's claim that homosexuals are more likely than heterosexuals to commit pedophilia is "abusively discriminatory."
"To use such brutal language as she does about such an essential characteristic ...
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