Washington state anti same-sex civil marriage group caught using fake family photos
Source: Seattle P-I
Preserve Marriage Washington, the campaign working to take away civil marriage for same sex couples in Washington launched a website last week.
Their website prominently features two family photos — as if to say their campaign is all about families. Unfortunately for them, the photos they bought may not be all that they seem.
The source of their “family” photos is a large database called iStockphoto.com that sells stock photos to anyone willing to pay a small license fee. One of the photos they purchased was called, “happy young family.” The company that took the photo is an Austrian based company called Ameridesign.
When Ameridesign found out what their work was being used for they wrote in an email, “Ameridesign was disappointed to learn our photograph is being used in an effort to take away civil marriage for same-sex couples in Washington by the organization ‘Preserve Marriage Washington.’ The organization purchased our photo from a large database of stock images without any contact with us,” They wrote, “Ameridesign supports the rights of loving and committed same-sex couples to marry.”
Read more: http://blog.seattlepi.com/stepforward/2012/02/16/anti-same-sex-civil-marriage-group-caught-using-fake-family-photos/
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