My parents always taught me to do the right thing, take care of my own business and never insert myself in other people\u2019s affairs. They backed up their lessons with sayings like, \u201cwork hard\u201d, \u201cmind your own business\u201d and \u201ckeep your nose out of other people\u2019s business\u201d. They are good people and exceptional parents and so I listened. Too often in my life, I stood on the sideline choosing their good advice and did not express myself or my opinions. \u00a0\u00a0Well I can sit on the sideline no longer!<\/p>\n
\u00a0I was shocked that the Manchester Union Leader refused to print a Portsmouth N.H.\u00a0 Tent-wedding announcement for two gay men last week…\u00a0\u00a0 This draconian decision was a poor political and business move from the New Hampshire\u2019s supposed leading newspaper.\u00a0\u00a0 The Union Leader ignored our state\u2019s motto \u201cLive free or Die\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They stated that they were a privately owned paper and had the right to refuse to print the announcement.\u00a0 Can we deduce that if they owned a coffee shop they could make the same decision on where those men could sit or not even serve them at all?\u00a0 What if they owned a bus line?\u00a0\u00a0 Is this 1963?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I believe we should allow individuals the right to make their own adult decisions.\u00a0\u00a0 I support individual rights – be it same sex weddings, civil unions or traditional marriages.\u00a0 Discrimination has no place in our society!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shame on the Union Leader!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My parents always taught me to do the right thing, take care of my own business and never insert myself in other people\u2019s affairs. They backed up their lessons with sayings like, \u201cwork hard\u201d, \u201cmind your own business\u201d and \u201ckeep your nose out of other people\u2019s business\u201d. They are good people and exceptional parents and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n