The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is heralding the fact that 1,049 newspapers across the nation now accept "wedding" announcements from same-sex couples.
In the six years since GLAAD launched its Announcing Equality campaign targeting newspapers, the percentage of dailies that run same-sex "wedding" announcements rose from 5 percent to 72 percent.
Same-sex "marriage" is recognized only in California and Massachusetts, yet all 50 states have newspapers that print such "wedding" announcements.
Charlene E. Cothran, editor of VenusMagazine.org and formerly gay-identified, said the media are trying to sway society.
"They're trying to desensitize the readership," she told Family News in Focus. "And this is one of the ways they are able to do it, by getting this announcement into the home of the regular reader."
Cothran said the truth will prevail.
"It does not matter how many newspapers run a gay 'marriage' announcement because that does not change the truth that gay and lesbian 'marriages' … are not what God intended," she said. "You can put it on a newspaper, you can put it on an airplane, you can print it anywhere you want; that does not change the truth."
