Gay Announcement has Utah Up in Arms

A small-town newspaper finds itself in the middle of a brewing controversy after publishing a wedding announcement for a lesbian couple. Now some people are complaining.

The Herald Journal in Logan has received calls, e-mails, and one fired-up letter to the editor from Narayne Rougeau.

“It’s not a legally-recognized marriage in the state of Utah. So to run it as such, I find offensive. That’s no different than running somebody else who decides to live together without benefit of marriage,” she said.

She says you might as well rename the section “co-habitations” or “commitment ceremonies.”

Rougeau says she isn’t making a moral judgment. She says the problem is a gay wedding announcement was placed in the paper when that kind of marriage is illegal in Utah. She says if the announcement had mentioned that the wedding had taken place in California, she wouldn’t have written in.

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