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Two years after Rogers Sportsnet anchor Damian Goddard was sacked soon after coming out in favour of “traditional” marriage, the Canadian Human Rights Commission has dismissed his longstanding claim that the firing was discriminatory.

In a decision released this week, the commission threw out the sportscaster’s case against Rogers Communications Inc. after finding no link between “the complainant’s religion and the termination of his employment contract,” according to Mr. Goddard.

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“Even though the human rights commission has made their decision, I’m not finished in getting the truth of the matter out,” said the former host of Connected, speaking from his Oakville home.

In a May 2011 Twitter post, Mr. Goddard wrote “I completely and whole-heartedly support Todd Reynolds and his support for the traditional and TRUE meaning of marriage.”

The message was issued in response to widely criticized comments by hockey agent Todd Reynolds, in which he claimed that same-sex marriage “will always be wrong.”