I believe that even your editors know that it would have been better placed in the Metro section and that it would have mitigated its impact to do so.” It is not something that I want coming into my home. “While I realize that the Post must report on these changes – even the ones with which I do not agree – I feel that the picture on Thursday morning was an affront to the majority of your readership.
“I am 65 years old and I realize that the world is changing rapidly – much more rapidly than I would like it to,” she e-mailed.
Real men marry women.”īut most simply said The Post had offended their sensibilities by publishing the photo, especially on the front page.Īnn Witty of Woodbridge wrote to say she had canceled the Post subscription she has held since the 1960s. I will be glad when your rag goes out of business. People have kids who are being exposed to this crap. One called me to complain about “promoting a faggot lifestyle.” Another complained about the photo in an e-mail to the two Post reporters who wrote Thursday’s story about the licenses: “That kind of stuff makes normal people want to throw up. Superior Court began issuing licenses to same-sex couples who had applied, a caller phoned to warn that he would cancel his Post subscription “if I see another photo of men lip-locking.”Ī few of the readers have engaged in rants, often with anti-gay slurs. With last Thursday’s photo, they continued into Friday, through the weekend and even today. Typically, the complaints quickly subside. The same thing happened recently when The Post published disturbing images of Haiti earthquake victims. That’s normal when controversial photos appear in The Post.
Superior Court on the day that the District began accepting license applications for same-sex marriages.Īlmost immediately, I began hearing from upset readers.
The photo, which ran on the newspaper's front page and online last week, captured Jeremy Ames and Taka Ariga kissing outside D.C.