Posted on 09/01/2010 9:59:16 AM PDT by stan_sipple
A Nebraska newspaper is easing its ban on publishing gay marriage announcements to allow notices about legally recognized same-sex unions.
Omaha World-Herald Publisher Terry Kroeger announced the change Tuesday. The paper had been criticized online for its refusal to print a lesbian couple's commitment notice.
Kroeger says the World-Herald may have been slow to react to this issue, but the newspaper never hated gays and lesbians.
Kroeger says the newspaper changed its policy because five states, including neighboring Iowa, and the District of Columbia have legalized gay marriage. The World-Herald will now accept paid announcements of weddings, engagements and anniversaries from places that sanction gay marriage.
They need the revenue.
One more reason not to buy a newspaper or let your kids read the classifieds & public notices.
Imagine having to explain these *wedding announcements* to your home-schooled children.
“We will now publish non-wedding ceremonies in the wedding section.”
Must be desperate to get the 6 lesbians in Nebraska to buy a paper.
The bachelorettes of Douglas county (sarc)
That should save it's collapse! ;-)
with a population of around 1 million where are they getting the readers and are they going to save the newspaper by appealing to the minscule homosexual population?
And will that miniscule increase in readers who appreciate them publishing homosexual union announcements be more than those who cancel the paper, seeing this as another liberal political statement? When you balance those out, it’s likely a no gain situation for them. And they know this. It’s all about them trying to prove to the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, Perez Hilton, etc. as to how tolerant and liberal they are.
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