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July 13, 2012 01:09 AM UTC

The AntiGay Group That Attacked Sen White

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  • by: jaytee

It’s the bigoted group with the horribly unwieldy euphemistic name: The Public Advocate of the United States. It’s not a pretty story and the Southern Poverty Law Center is looking to make the group pay.

From the Colorado Independent:


The campaign mailer features two men leaning together and kissing. The image comes from a treasured engagement photo snapped in New York city that was allegedly stolen and reworked by an anti-gay Virginia group. The group, the Public Advocate of the United States, dimmed the original crisp black and white shot, replaced Manhattan skyscrapers and the Brooklyn Bridge with hazy snow-covered mountains and cut across the middle of the image with words on a blood-red line intended to mock the couple and attack Republican Colorado state Senator Jean White, from Hayden in the rural conservative northwest top of the state.

The New York couple, Brian Edwards and Tom Privitere, are outraged and they engaged attorneys at the Southern Poverty Law Center to send a cease and desist letter to Eugene Delgaudio, president of the Falls Church-based group behind the mailer…

“It appears from your public statements that you knowingly and willfully misappropriated Tom and Brian’s images and [the] copyrighted photo for use in your homophobic mailers against Colorado state senators,” wrote SPLC Deputy Legal Director Christine Sun in the letter she sent yesterday to Delgaudio…

Sun told the Colorado Independent that the point of the letter is to prevent Delgaudio’s group from using the image in any other planned mailers. She said that she is still investigating the claims made by her clients and that she is “open to pursuing legal action based on any future claims her clients might make based on past use of the image,” meaning she is open to suing for compensation based on misappropriation of the copyrighted image and emotional distress caused by the mailer.

So, can the SPLC also sue to win a do-over in the primary White lost to Baumgardner?

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