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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 11/18/2008

How Relevant Is The Human Rights Campaign?

— andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com — You will notice that the website of the biggest gay rights group in the country has one single mention - it's a blog about a celebrity, of course - of the massive protests that occurred for marriage equality across the country yesterday. (A letter ... (more) How Relevant Is The Human Rights Campaign?

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BREAKING: Moon Report on Canadian Human Rights Commissions says... REPEAL SECTION 13!
All — From the Summary of Recommendations: 1. The first recommendation is that section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) be repealed so that the CHRC and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) would no longer deal with hate speech, in particular hate speech on the Internet. Hate speech should continue to be prohibited under the Criminal Code but confined to expression that advocates, justifies or threatens violence. In the fight against hate on the Internet, police and ...

Moon Report Released
small dead animals — ... "The first recommendation is that section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) be repealed so that the CHRC and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal would no longer deal with hate speech, in particular hate speech on the Internet." Full report here . Posted by Kate at November 24, 2008 11:23 AM

The Moon Report
Daimnation! — I haven't read the whole thing, but this conclusion looks like a pleasant surprise: I have taken the position in this report that the censorship of hate speech should be limited to speech that explicitly or implicitly threatens, justifies or advocates violence against the members of an identifiable group. However, the prohibition of this narrow category of extreme expression fits awkwardly in a human rights law that is concerned with the eradication of discrimination through education and conciliation. It is for this reason that my principal ...

Free Speech, eh?
Neptunus Lex — ... This morning, the (Canadian Human Rights Commission) issued the so-called Moon Report on free-speech issues. Most of us expected it to be a whitewash. Instead, Professor Moon says: ...

Free speech R us
small dead animals — Free speech R us Last year the Canadian Human Rights Commission commissioned University of Windsor professor Richard Moon to review the censorship provisions of the Canadian Human Rights act. Alas, his principle recommendation was that section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights act be repealed. The CHRC, refusing to stand idly by in the face of a suggestion that their censorship racket to be dismantled, has now released it's own report, the self-laudatory ...