Married pair upset after Utah daily says policy is to print only legal unions
SALT LAKE CITY - A southern Utah newspaper has rejected a gay California couple's wedding announcement, saying its policy is to publish announcements only for marriages legal under Utah law.
The Spectrum in St. George initially accepted a paid wedding announcement for Tyler Barrick and Spencer Jones last week, but then changed course, Jones said. The San Francisco couple were legally married June 17, 2008. They wanted the announcement printed in Jones' hometown paper ahead of a family party next week.
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6 comments:
Not only are they not married according to the law , they are not
married according to the bible.
You mean the new Obama Bible Care?
Wait. I thought they voted in California that gay marriage was illegal. Is it now leagal?
They ARE in Utah-Now if it was a guy marrying his 2nd or 3rd wife,it would be printed?LOL
Puke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will never understand why America thinks it is necessary to prevent 2 people who love each other from marrying, just because they are of the same gender.
Those politicians who state they are working to "protect the sanctity of marriage" don't practice what they preach half the time ( S.C. Governor Sanford, Senator John Edwards, Mark Foley, Eliot Spitzer,etc. The problem is on both sides of the political spectrum)
I don't get how two "straight" people can get married while drunk in Vegas and then have it annulled, but two people who have made a commitment to one another can not get married because they are of the same gender. There is just something plain wrong with that.
Obviously hetero couples were not upholding "the sanctity of marriage" when the divorce rate was 40% in 2001 (http://www.divorcereform.org/rates.html for data) , and while it may have gone down in recent years, it is still unfair.
I have known gay couples who have been together for 15 to 20 years, sometimes even longer, and the only reason they are not married is because the people of the US won't let them. It's a damn shame.
I can only hope this gets changed in my lifetime, because gay or straight, everyone deserves to have love and be married if they choose.
A church should never be required to perform gay weddings if it is against their religious laws, but the Government should allow same sex couples to be married at the court house just like hetero couples.
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