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Lesbian wedding announcement draws angry response in Utah

“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.”

Narayne Rougeau, a angry reader of the Logan Herald Journal explaining why she and some others are upset that the local paper ran a wedding announcement for a lesbian couple that was married in Salt Lake, UT. Her Letter to the Editor has drawn some angry responses, too. (KSL Newsradio)

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