ALL OF A TWITTER AS LEGAL THREAT TO BLOGGER ADDS SPICE TO THE PUBLIC BATTLE

Anti-pornography romantic Melinda Tankard-Reist. Photo: Simon O'Dwyer

A BLOGGER who characterised a distinguished anti-pornography romantic Melinda Tankard-Reist as a fundamentalist Christian has vowed not to apologise, notwithstanding being in jeopardy with defamation.

In a box which has set Twitter fervent with snub for days, Ms Tankard-Reist’s lawyers served a ”letter of demand” during a week end to Jennifer Wilson, who lives upon a NSW north seashore and blogs during a website No Place for Sheep.

The minute demanded Dr Wilson redress a post which characterised Ms Tankard-Reist as false for not disclosing her eremite beliefs. It additionally demanded she pointer a minute of reparation drafted by Ms Tankard-Reist’s lawyers, compensate Ms Tankard-Reist’s authorised costs, and remarkable which Ms Tankard-Reist indifferent a right to sue for defamation.

Dr Wilson posted her strange blog entrance upon Jan 10 after The Sun-Herald ran a form of Ms Tankard-Reist, which did not seek votes her eremite beliefs.

Dr Wilson claimed Ms Tankard-Reist was a part of of a Belconnen Baptist Church in Canberra which, Dr Wilson claimed, done her anti-pornography and anti-abortion views.

But a senior manager military officer of Belconnen Baptist Church, Phil Priest, said, after checking a church’s files, which she was ”definitely not upon a books”.

Ms Tankard-Reist pronounced her conflict to a blog post centred upon a explain she had been ”deceptive and duplicitous” about her beliefs.

”I had unequivocally usually longed for an reparation and nullification though am right away deliberating subsequent stairs with my lawyers.”

Dr Wilson certified yesterday she had formed her claims about Ms Tankard-Reist’s eremite ideology upon a Facebook page and a Wikipedia entrance – both of which have given been nice – as good as alternative blogs. ”I do unequivocally wish to have it transparent which we have been criticising Melinda Tankard-Reist for about dual years and she has not once, never once, taken me to charge for anything I’ve said,” Dr Wilson pronounced yesterday. ”And unexpected out of nowhere I’m slapped with a hazard of insult … we consider it’s a really clumsy approach. we positively do not intend to palm over any income and we positively do not intend to apologise. If she persists, she can hurt me, there’s no question.”

High-profile supporters together with Leslie Cannold, Wil Anderson and Catherine Deveney have taken to Twitter to await Dr Wilson.The Australian Sex Party, a long-term competition of Ms Tankard-Reist, done a own insult threats.

The celebration leader, Fiona Patten, pronounced Ms Tankard-Reist had pronounced ”some really hideous untruths” about a party, and which she had been ”inspired” by a debate to revisit a emanate of authorised action.