reddit threads on the Rory Feek brouhaha lawsuit

[Steven Avery]

Removed?

Rory Feek’s daughter Heidi sued by Homestead Heritage for "defamation"
https://www.reddit com/r/FundieSnarkUncensored/comments/1fuha9f/comment/lqpyno0/

https://www.reddit.com/r/FundieSnarkUncensored/comments/1fuha9f/comment/lqpyno0/

This is a wacky lawsuit. The basic premise is that the articles in 2012 by the Texas Observer and a related TV broadcast by WFAA were defamatory.

However, Homestead Heritage never sued those entities. Oops.

Instead, they put up a bunch of blog post Responses, and that is their pseudo-proof that they were defamed.

Taste of Country and the article author are being sued … essentially for not accepting the Homestead blog posts as the Gospel Revealed Truth! A good judge will simply say - “then sue the Texas Observer and WFAA, case dismissed, with prejudice.”

Trying to intimidate with a 250k $$ scare tactic is also not a good look.
Smarter would have been the $1 route.

Including Heidi Feek in the suit was absurd. All she has done is express her 1st-amendment freedom-of-speech right to express concerns. Even if she called them a cult, which is quite questionable, there is plenty of case law that the term is not legally actionable.

And I don’t think Homestead will let it go to Discovery.

Among other problems, they have a fundamental difficulty in their historical claims that will likely come out in discovery, one that will put their leadership under a cloud.

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Btw, I like Homestead Heritage in many ways. Have been connected since the 1970s. And I was not a fan of the 2012 media attacks and defended them in various Internet forum wars (Factnet and Topix.)

They have gone through many changes in recent years. They have an international growth push going on. Doctrines have changed.

Their core doctrine now is “Yahweh-worship” which is ultra-problematic, especially as it has become clearer what is the “Yahweh” to whom they fervently pray. And sing praises, such as mangling the beautiful song “Days of Elijah”.

Thanks for listening. Some excellent earlier comments.

Blessings and grace in Jesus!

Steven (Avery) Spencer

Dutchess County, NY USA

 

[Steven Avery]

https://www.reddit.com/user/Kind_Sc...estead_heritage_is_suing_rory_feeks_daughter/


Thanks!

“Their entire case rests on the claim that Hanniford and Shipp’s documentaries were false slander, and that by referencing and quoting them, Feek also slandered them.“

Yes, this is the most bewildering element of the case. Homestead Heritage could have easily filed a lawsuit (apparently a one-year statute of limitations) claiming defamation by the supposed libels of The Texas Observer and WFAA. That never having been done, we may well see the case tossed by a savvy judge, even before “Discovery.”

(The Homestead Heritage Alabama pricey $$ lawyers may be engaged in judge-shopping, locals might know the Alabama ins and outs.)

In that sense, seeing the fundamental weakness, this may well be a “throwaway” case, meant only for harassment and intimidation, and then quickly “settled” for next to nothing. If Homestead were smart they would even pay defense legal costs, with an NDA, to get this settled and off the docket.

Otherwise, I don’t think they thought out what will come out in discovery and trial.
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Note: I did not think the article and broadcast were really very fair, I mildly supported Homestead Heritage in Internet forums at the time, based on my years of connection. However, that is neither here nor there, it is public record reporting, never sued, never retracted.
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Steven (Avery) Spencer
Dutchess County, NY USA