TalkSPORT rapped over gay jibes - no comments

Says the BBC:

Radio station TalkSPORT has been censured after two presenters made derogatory comments about gay people. [...] Mike Mendoza was suspended for a week after linking homosexuality with paedophilia, while Garry Bushell called homosexuality a "perversion".

It's hard to say whether hackneyed statements like this - from the bastion of intelligent thought that is talk-radio - still have the power to offend or "inflame". Some day they might not, but why we should we judge the falsity of the claims by the level or intensity of opposition? People should be able to point out, whatever their own personal circumstances, that such claims are simply false - making Mendoza and Bushell idiots for repeating them ignorantly or accidentally, or potentially hateful liars for doing so knowingly.