Newspaper Bans Same-Sex Wedding Annoucements, Censors Pro-Gay Journalists

[DonViejo]

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Earlier this month, employees of Mississippi’s third-largest newspaper, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, plus several other smaller weeklies owned by the same publisher, received an internal memo from Charlotte Wolfe, the company’s associate publisher, informing them of a new company policy.

“Journal, Inc. has made a policy decision to not accept wedding/engagement notices from samesex (sic) couples,” Wolfe wrote. “Please communicate to anyone else on your staff who would be taking this information from walkin [sic] customers.”

Wolfe then went on to say that employees were not allowed to share their feelings about marriage equality in their columns or on social media. “A decision has been made that the Journal’s editorial board will not take a position on the recent Supreme Court decision,” she wrote. “Because the company is not taking an editorial position on this, we need to follow suit, and not take positions editorially or in personal columns.”

She continued: “We need to remember that we and our employees all are representatives of Journal, Inc. 24/7. Our job is to report the news objectively and we can’t do this if we’re also on social media sharing our opinions. We have a right to our opinions, but because we are so tightly connected to our newspaper products, we don’t need to vocalize this on social media … whether we realize it or not, people see that as the paper’s opinion.”

But apparently the new censorship rule didn’t apply to the newspapers owner, Clay Foster. Because two days later, he published a column about why gay marriage is “contrary to God’s Word.”

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http://www.queerty.com/newspaper-bans-same-sex-wedding-annoucements-censors-pro-gay-journalists-20150718?

[hollysmom]

1. ifthey are not accepting same sex marriage announcements, they have taken a position and

that position is illegal.

[onenote]

6. unless Mississippi bars discrimination based on sexual orientation

(which I don't think they do) their decision isn't illegal.

[pennylane100]

2. Let us hope there are many requests for subscription cancellations.

[niyad]

3. does that rule about social media commentary apply to any other issues or events?

[underpants]

4. In Mississippi?

Really?

[stopbush]

5. Mr Foster is just another Xian who believes Xians have a privileged status

in the USA.

The sense of entitlement these assholes feel based on their firmly held conceit that their version of fucking MAKE BELIEVE (ie: Xianity) bestows upon them a different set of rules and privlieges is disgusting.