The Union Leader’s Shameful Throwback

William Loeb once penned an editorial in the Union Leader in which he spoke out against the growth of New Hampshire’s minority population. The state has undergone much change since then. Apparently the state’s largest newspaper has not.

Same-sex marriage became legal in New Hampshire on January 1, 2010. This week, the Union Leader refused to print a wedding announcement for a gay couple getting married in Portsmouth and released this statement:

This newspaper has never published wedding or engagement announcements from homosexual couples. 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.