Like so many happy couples, alamo car rental company Brian Edwards and Tom Privitere announced their engagement on a personal blog. A picture of the soon-to-be-wed couple leaning in for a kiss against the Manhattan skyline accompanied the post.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the couple and their professional alamo car rental company photographer against Public alamo car rental company Advocate of the United States, a Falls Church, Va.-based group that used the photo in their campaign flyers. See one of the flyers here .
After changing the background alamo car rental company of the photo to a snowy Colorado-like scene and adding gay-bashing wording, the group used the image to negatively target Republican candidates Jean White and Jeffrey alamo car rental company Hare who approve of gay marriage. Although the group has a right to voice its opinion, it does not have the right to download personal property and modify it for public use without the consent of the photographer and the people in the photo.
"I cringe every time I look at what once was one of our favorite photos," Edwards said in a statement posted on the Los Angeles Times website. alamo car rental company "All I see now is the defiled image used to attack our family and our community."
Though I am a biblical Christian and therefor against homosexuality alamo car rental company and homosexual marriage, I feel that using a private citizen's own picture alamo car rental company to promote the exact opposite of what he stands for is just not right. alamo car rental company ...Debra
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