A wedding photo shot from the Right

[stevedeshazer]

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_sarasohn/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1110625371319421.xml

Almost exactly a year after their marriage, Richard Raymen and Steven Hansen got a belated wedding present Thursday.

A federal judge thinks their wedding picture may be their own business -- even if you're a right-winger who figures that what President Bush's Social Security campaign really needs is some gay-bashing.

As presents go, it beats a fondue set.

For everyone late to this particular movie, Raymen and Hansen are two Portlanders who married during Multnomah County's gay marriage special last year, when a picture of their wedding kiss appeared in the Portland Tribune. In the past month, the picture's appeared in lots of other places, as the Washington operation USA Next ran it, together with a picture of a U.S. soldier, as part of an attack on AARP. The piece showed an X over the soldier's picture, and a check over Raymen and Hansen's, with the declaration, "The REAL AARP Agenda."

more at link....

[Clark2008]

1. If the Taster's Choice model is owed restitution, surely

private citizens are.

Stupid neo-con wing-nuts. You'd think someone who bows to a corporate master would understand property rights.

[stevedeshazer]

2. That's a good analogy

Even the right-leaning local paper here that USANext stole the photo from is pissed, but only about copyright issues.

The article is here:

http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=28641

[tjwmason]

6. Property rights vs. hate-mongering.

Which do you think wins out?

All of the neo-cons fully support these rights, until they think that they will benefit by trampling all over them (my liberty's a fine thing, hey let's bring in the Patriot Act...).

[GOPFighter]

3. What a sleazy organization!

"USA Next, formerly known as the United Seniors Association, depicts itself as supported by 1.5 million members, and often gets away with it. But a recent filing listed no revenue from members, and the group is financed heavily by the drug industry."

How do these people face themselves in the mirror every morning? Surely some of their spouses and kids must truly despise them. "Junior, why did you tell all your friends I'm a used-car salesman??!" "Because, Dad, I'm too ashamed to tell them that you're a conservative lobbiest trying to rip old people off!"

[Demit]

4. I like this part in the story:

"The group's original response to the couple's wish not to star in its smear was to claim that it had bought the photo rights, which had the legal problem of not being true."

Hahaha! Dipshits. Plus the GOP strategist in charge of using the photo is blaming "someone on his staff" for giving him the impression they had secured the rights. The old GOP It's Not My Fault It's Somebody Else's defense.

I hope they have to pay through the homophobic nose.

[Scooter24]

5. haha

"There might even be another lawsuit out there. Wolf has heard a report on the Internet that the soldier in the ad isn't too pleased about his picture's use, either.

USA Next could find itself just deeper in the fondue."
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That would be icing on the cake. To see a soldier go after this group. I can see every Republican cringing on that prospect.

[Meeker Morgan]

7. Finally a bit of sense in the world eot