Public Advocate of the U.S.

[[File:Eugene Delgaudio.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Delgaudio with [[devil]]'s tail]]
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{{cquote|All I do is take a position that is counter to what the establishment is thinking, and I know the truth of my position because it's based on what the average person really believes|||Eugene Delgaudio<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20040405174637/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10885-2002Apr7?language=printer</ref>}}
'''Public Advocate of the U.S.''', or just '''Public Advocate''', is an [[United States|American]] 
slush fund
 organization run by '''Eugene Delgaudio''',<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040405174637/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10885-2002Apr7?language=printer Washington Post on Eugene Delgaudio]</ref> part-time representative on the Board of Supervisors of Loudon County, [[Virginia]], and full-time [[Homophobia|homophobe]].

As far as anti-[[gay]] [[wingnut]] sites go, it's not the most batshit [[insane]], but its frequent usage of the phrase "radical homosexual lobby", the most obviously loaded surveys that ever existed,<ref>Seriously, [http://www.publicadvocateusa.org/survey.php?id=40 look] [http://www.publicadvocateusa.org/survey.php?id=28 at] [http://www.publicadvocateusa.org/survey.php?id=38 these]</ref> paranoid tales of [[Homofascism|homofascists]] stalking his family,<ref>http://www.traditionalvalues.us/lawyer_nd_con.htm?r=0</ref> and incessant e-begging/fundraising gimmicks<ref>"<span class="myName">Urist</span>, you have done so much for our cause.  I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.  Today, I’m asking you to dig even deeper.  I hope to count on you for at least $50 -- $100 or even $200 if you can afford it."</ref> all earn him a pretty high ranking on the relative craziness scoreboard.

==Newsletter==
[[File:Public Advocate screenshot 12-28-11.png|thumb|left|400px|How 
nauseatingly
 wonderfully 
stupid
 patriotic.]]
About once a week (or more frequently, in some instances) ol' Eugene sends out an e-mail to all who signed up for his newsletter, probably unwittingly. In these he likes to do two things: rant about how the perverse radical homosexual lobby is destroying America, and ask for your generous donations -- about twenty times. Often these are accompanied by delusions of paranoia and grandeur, simultaneously ("...before every radical homosexual activist holds a copy of Public Advocate’s financial records in [[Inclusive language|his]] conniving hands").

==Various claims==
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*There's a very powerful radical homosexual lobby in America that has literally unlimited funds that is working to destroy [[Family values|The Family©]] by legalizing [[same-sex marriage]] (gasp!), and [[sodomy]] ('''double gasp!''') and [[bestiality]] in the [[United States Armed Forces|US military]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/hostedemail/email.htm?CID=10827663378&ch=296DA30D15F45ADC1574A3B289B1DECA&h=44d56685de5c2827d294c37f2ec00ff5&ei=sLYpzQ8NJ U.S. Military degraded again]</ref>
*The Gasparilla Pirate Festival in Tampa is infiltrated by “radical homosexuals” seeking to exploit unsuspecting college students; complete with fully fictional and imaginary anecdotes.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20121010163159/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2011/02/loudoun_supervisors_comments_o.html)</ref> (This one went viral in 2010.)
*On the TSA's full-body security scans: “It's the federal employee's version of the Gay Bill of Special Rights ... That means the next TSA official that gives you an ‘enhanced pat down’ could be a practicing homosexual secretly getting pleasure from your submission.”
*"As homosexuals die off due to AIDS, the remaining AIDS carriers prey on children to replenish the Homosexual Community.”<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20111029235622/http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2011/10/27/disturbing-rainbow-blood-image-posted-by-eugene-delgaudio/)</ref>
*“I absolutely must find $73,575 before the end of next month to pay for printing, telephones, research, and postage.” (Repeated, with minor modifications, ad nauseam, every month, every year).

==In the blogosphere==
[[PZ Myers]], of Pharyngula, has blogged about them twice: once about their "survey,"<ref>[http://www.traditionalvalues.us/moralitysurvey3.aspx?pid=MSt1 Calling all radical homosexuals: take this survey!]</ref> which is so biased it's 
not even funny
 hilarious, and another time about one of their newsletters.<ref>[http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/10/18/i-get-email-5/ I get email]</ref>

[[Ed Brayton]] has also highlighted Delgaudio's constant appeals for money, and where it goes,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120315105649/http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/03/13/eugene-delgaudios-perfect-scam/ Eugene Delgaudio's Perfect Scam]</ref> as well as the [[Jack Chick]]-esque content of his newsletters.

==External links==
*[http://www.publicadvocateusa.org The site in question.]
*{{wpa|Eugene Delgaudio}}

==References==
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