Posted: May 13, 2012 8:38 am
Shrunk wrote:
I guess it depends on the content of the review. If you just criticize a restaurant's food, that's OK. But if you suggest that the kitchen staff are peeing in it, that would probably be defamatory. So this case may come down to, e.g. whether she says the Church is like a cult, or suggests it actually is one.
The woman's blog is here, so you can judge for yourself.
But the pastor claims in the lawsuit he filed that her words, "creepy," "cult," "control tactics," and "spiritual abuse," are defamation.
I really doubt the church has a case here, it seems she just described how she perceived the church? If so, all that should matter is that she really perceived it like that or not, and proving that she did not perceive it like "creepy" or "cult-like" is pretty much impossible?