NH Newspaper Discriminates
Cited: Daily News
New Hampshire’s largest newspaper need to “Stop the Presses”! The paper is presently under fire for refusing to publish marriage notices for same-sex couples. The fact is, New Hampshire is one of the 5 US states that recognize a homosexual marriage. It became legal on January 1, 2 years after civil partnerships were allowed.
The famously conservative Union Leader of Manchester rejected a wedding announcement called in by Greg Gould and Aurelio Tine earlier this month ahead of their nuptials Saturday in Portsmouth.
Publisher Joe McQuaid told The Associated Press that the privately owned paper isn’t anti-gay but staunchly believes marriage should be reserved for a man and a woman.
“While the law sanctions gay marriage, it neither demands that churches perform them or that our First Amendment right to choose what we print be suspended,” McQuaid said in a statement.
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“This newspaper has never published wedding or engagement announcements from homosexual couples,” McQuaid also said in a statement to New Hampshire’s WMUR. “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.”
The Union Leader has opposed the state’s legalization of gay marriage previously in editorials.
Greg Gould, one half of the homosexual couple involved, described the newspaper as “out of touch”. “It’s just news,” said Gould, a 42-year-old financier, of his announcement. “If they didn’t want to report on all the things they didn’t like, then they wouldn’t report on murder, and war, and government.”
“I was really disappointed because the Union Leader is a big voice in the state of New Hampshire, and they seem to be so out of touch,” Gould told WMUR.
But Paul Hodes, a Democratic Senate candidate for the state, told McQuaid that the newspaper should “respect the law of New Hampshire” and change its policy.
The snub has now become an election issue. Democratic Senate candidate Paul Hodes sent a letter to McQuaid demanding the newspaper respect the state law. “The Union Leader’s disgraceful policy of exclusion harkens to a different time in this country when people were denied opportunity because of their race, religion and ethnic origin,” Hodes wrote.
Kelly Ayotte , a spokesman for the Republican opponent, to the AP that government officials shouldn’t be meddling in freedom of the press.
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My Take: I may not like what the newspaper did, but they do have the right to refuse service to anyone. However, I expect that their call answering service has been inundated since this hit the newsstands. I know if I was a customer of theirs and I thought they were doing the wrong thing, I would definitely want to let them know about it.
That is why many big businesses have answering services. It’s too bad that those that were trying to get the marriage notices in the paper can’t utilize the services of Wellington FL injury attorneys. Or would they need the services of a business litigation attorney? I really don’t know which type of attorney they would need.
I just cannot see the point in fighting against homosexuality in our society. It is one of those things that is been happening for thousands of years and the only one that are against it are religious people. No offense intended, but what goes on behind closed doors is nobody’s business but behind that one.
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