SPLC Vs Eugene Delgaudio & Public Advocate US

Hill v. PAUS Complaint - Filed 092612

Well, this is awesome! In case you’re not familiar with this case, Hate Group “Public Advocate US” used a photo of a gay couple kissing to promote their anti-gay agenda in Colorado against State Senators that supported civil partnerships for gay and lesbian couples. The thing is, that picture (right) was used with out the couples consent nor the photographer’s license. So the Southern Poverty Law Center is seeking to take this sons of bitches to Court over two main issues:

1. The unlawful use of a copyrighted photograph, and
2. The damage of the image and human dignity of the couple on the photograph (Tom Privitere and Brian Edwards)

[…] For years, “Public Advocate” has spread lies and vitriol about LGBT people to raise funds, impede progress toward greater equality, and to deny LGBT people basic dignity and respect. From the many regrettable examples that could be listed, “Public Advocate” has throughout the years:
 
•       blamed “the homosexual agenda” for enhanced-passenger-search procedures at airports so that gay people can feel others up;
•       compared marriage equality to bestiality through production of a “Man-Donkey Mock Wedding Ceremony”;
 
•       defamed gay people as pedophiles and rapists to be feared, in reference, for example, to permitting gay scout masters, which is “the same as being an accessory to the rape of hundreds of boys”;
•       demonized gay people and those suffering from AIDS as “prey[ing] on children to replenish the ‘Homo-sexual Community’”;• provoked readers through a fundraising letter to “imagine a world where the police allow homosexual adults to rape young boys in the streets”;
•       promoted harmful, discredited conversion therapy as necessary and effective to rescue gay people from their orientation; and
•               mischaracterized national legislation to address an epidemic of anti-LGBT harassment at schools as “requir[ing] schools to teach appalling homosexual acts…force private and even religious schools to teach a pro-homosexual agenda…ram through their entire perverted vision for a homosexual America….create a new America based on sexual promiscuity.”
 
Because of these misrepresentations and numerous others, the Southern Poverty Law Center has previously designated “Public Advocate” as a hate group. […]

PS. Eugene Delgaudio is the President of the Public Advocates for the U.S. He can be reached at his email address: eugene@joineugene.com