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| | CFYI-AM & CJCH-AM re the Dr. Laura Schlessinger Show |
 | | CFYI-AM and CJCH-AM are required to announce this decision forthwith, in the following terms, during peak listening hours and, within the next thirty days, to provide confirmation of the airing of the statement to the CBSC and to the complainants who filed the Ruling Requests. |
 | | Laura Schlessinger Show broadcast on August 13 and 24, 1999, the broadcaster aired comments by the host which were abusively discriminatory with respect to gay and lesbian persons on the basis of their sexual orientation, in violation of the human rights provision of the CAB Code of Ethics. |
 | | By broadcasting comments of Laura Schlessinger describing the behaviour of gays and lesbians as aberrant, an error, deviant and dysfunctional, and by making a generalized allegation concerning a link between homosexuality and paedophilia, CFYI breached the provisions of Clauses 2 and 6 of the CAB Code of Ethics. |
| www.cbsc.ca /english/decisions/decisions/2000/000510.htm (7934 words) |
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