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NAACP's Attempt to Deny Black Citizen Journalist's Free Speech Rights Goes to Federal Appeals Court
Contact: Bethany Marie, The Radiance Foundation, 877-517-4463, media@theradiancefoundation.org
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2014 /Standard Newswire/ -- In a bizarre twist on civil rights, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is suing a black man for exercising his second most basic civil right -- free speech. The NAACP has sued The Radiance Foundation and its co-founder, Ryan Bomberger, for "trademark infringement, confusion and dilution" charges. Federal judge Raymond Jackson sided with the NAACP in an outrageous decision declaring that parodying the organization's name in news articles, a staple of comedy and political discourse, is not protected by the First Amendment.
The parodied name, which Radiance and Bomberger are banned from ever mentioning in speech or in writing, simply indicates the NAACP's far-left support of abortion. Black babies are aborted at rates 5 times higher than those in the majority population. Bomberger, a citizen journalist who has written for several years for LifeNews.com, angered the organization with a news article detailing the NAACP's documented pro-abortion policies and actions. The title of the "infringing" article contained the parodied name.
Judge Jackson also demanded in the Permanent Injunction that The Radiance Foundation (a life-affirming organization that engages in extensive research and development of creative media to educate the public) destroy anything it has ever created or published that mentions the parodied name or any of the NAACP's trademarks.
"Abortion doesn't advance colored people," says Ryan Bomberger, Chief Creative Officer of The Radiance Foundation. "And since we're all colored people, killing our posterity doesn't advance any community. I find it incredibly ironic that the NAACP chose to sue a black man over parodying their name but not Rush Limbaugh, who has an audience of millions, and has parodied their name for over twenty years. Is this another example of a black-on-black-crime?"
The NAACP regularly partners with the nation's largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood, which is a corporate sponsor of the civil rights group's annual conventions. In NYC, home of Planned Parenthood, more black babies are aborted than are born alive: 1,223 aborted for every 1,000 born alive.
Bomberger will be a featured speaker at Values Voter Summit in DC September 27th and 28th and will address how our First Amendment rights are under relentless attack.
Alliance Defending Freedom allied attorney Charles M. Allen (with the Glen Allen, Virginia firm Goodman, Allen & Filetti PLLC) is defending Bomberger and Radiance in The Radiance Foundation v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2014 /Standard Newswire/ -- In a bizarre twist on civil rights, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is suing a black man for exercising his second most basic civil right -- free speech. The NAACP has sued The Radiance Foundation and its co-founder, Ryan Bomberger, for "trademark infringement, confusion and dilution" charges. Federal judge Raymond Jackson sided with the NAACP in an outrageous decision declaring that parodying the organization's name in news articles, a staple of comedy and political discourse, is not protected by the First Amendment.
The parodied name, which Radiance and Bomberger are banned from ever mentioning in speech or in writing, simply indicates the NAACP's far-left support of abortion. Black babies are aborted at rates 5 times higher than those in the majority population. Bomberger, a citizen journalist who has written for several years for LifeNews.com, angered the organization with a news article detailing the NAACP's documented pro-abortion policies and actions. The title of the "infringing" article contained the parodied name.
Judge Jackson also demanded in the Permanent Injunction that The Radiance Foundation (a life-affirming organization that engages in extensive research and development of creative media to educate the public) destroy anything it has ever created or published that mentions the parodied name or any of the NAACP's trademarks.
"Abortion doesn't advance colored people," says Ryan Bomberger, Chief Creative Officer of The Radiance Foundation. "And since we're all colored people, killing our posterity doesn't advance any community. I find it incredibly ironic that the NAACP chose to sue a black man over parodying their name but not Rush Limbaugh, who has an audience of millions, and has parodied their name for over twenty years. Is this another example of a black-on-black-crime?"
The NAACP regularly partners with the nation's largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood, which is a corporate sponsor of the civil rights group's annual conventions. In NYC, home of Planned Parenthood, more black babies are aborted than are born alive: 1,223 aborted for every 1,000 born alive.
Bomberger will be a featured speaker at Values Voter Summit in DC September 27th and 28th and will address how our First Amendment rights are under relentless attack.
Alliance Defending Freedom allied attorney Charles M. Allen (with the Glen Allen, Virginia firm Goodman, Allen & Filetti PLLC) is defending Bomberger and Radiance in The Radiance Foundation v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
