The Logan Herald-Journal has stirred up controversy by posting a wedding announcement by a lesbian couple (pictured above) back on July 27th. They posted it under the category entitled "Weddings" even though gay marriage is not recognized in Utah. Media link:

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3928681

Wedding announcement stirs controversy for Logan newspaper
August 4th, 2008 @ 8:27am
By Andrew Adams
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.

"For them to say that the marriage was going to take place in Salt Lake City on the 8th of August, they knew that wasn't true," Rougeau says. "But they ran it anyway, under political correctness, or for whatever reason they chose to do that."

She claims, "It's no different than if the paper had run the marriage of a polygamist man who had several wives and run it in the paper. I really would be curious if The Herald Journal would have run a picture like that, too."

The announcement says the couple is "pleased to announce their marriage ... at Memory Grove Park in Salt Lake City."

The Herald Journal released a statement saying that since wedding ads are paid space, it has a responsibility to give all paying customers equal access to the service.

The newspaper says it came up with a policy in 2006, but this is the first time it has come into play. It says the same applies to obituaries, where listing of homosexual partners has happened before, and where the paper would "never think of injecting its own moral code."

E-mail: aadams@ksl.com

Note that KSL didn't bother to identify the couple or post their picture. The Voice Of Deseret hunted down the picture and posted it, along with links to the wedding announcement and the LTE, HERE.

What is disturbing is that a large number of public commenters express support for the couple, as well as the newspaper posting their announcement as a "wedding". The gay rights movement has so desensitized us to this that many people now look upon gay marriage as no different than real marriage.

Perhaps after they visit the VNN link posted by Voice of Deseret and see the disgusting depravity in San Francisco, they'll change their minds.