Gay marriage is legal in New Hampshire but newspaper won't print wedding announcement

Aurelio and Greg

Gay marriage is legal in New Hampshire... but try telling that to the Union Leader newspaper of Manchester. The conservative-leaning daily recently rejected a gay-marriage announcement and caused a huge uproar.

Although the state legalized homosexual marriages in June 2009, God still has not sent any apocalyptic floods New Hampshire's way. (Nor, it seems, has He made a statement about how disappointed He is that loving couples are binding their unions with legal paperwork and a ceremony.) Nonetheless, the Union Leader's owner still does not realize his state has entered the 21st century.

"This newspaper has never published wedding or engagement announcements from homosexual couples. It would be hypocritical of us to do so, given our belief that marriage is and needs to remain a social and civil structure between men and women and our opposition to the recent state law legalizing gay marriage." [Queerty]

I'm just going to say it clearly: fuck the Union Leader and congratulations to Greg Gould and Aurelio Tine! If the Union Loser won't print the wedding announcement, I will.

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Oct 25 10 at 11:01 am

Twolane

The union leader? Not so much.

Oct 25 10 at 6:46 pm

Nell

We call it the union liar in common parlance up here...

Oct 26 10 at 12:30 pm

Kogo

Ah, the highly limited extent to which anyone is willing to take that whole "live free or die" thing.

"Live quietly and obediently within a tight jacket of constricting, unrealistic rules or be mocked" is more like it.

New Hampshire newspaper rejects legal gay wedding announcement

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