Mike and Chuck HewittTwo Missouri newspapers refused to run a wedding announcement from an Independence same-sex couple.On May 17, Mike and Chuck Hewitt legally tied the knot in Lamoni, Iowa, and wanted to share the news. They tried to place wedding announcements in the Independence Examiner and Kansas City Star, but the newspapers rejected them.Here's what the Star and Examiner refused to print:
Charles A. and Michael J. Hewitt were married on May 17, 2009, in Roy A. Cheville Chapel at Gracela
A few hours after I posted an item about Kansas City Police Department yesterday, spokesman Rich Lockhart let me know the information might be misleading.
According to a police memo last week, the department is cutting domestic partner benefits in an effort to save $421,000 in a particularly tight budget year. While such benefits allow same-sex couples to get shared health insurance, plenty of straight pairs take advantage, too. A domestic partnership, I now know, can be any man and
Jolie JustusLast Friday, Missouri state Sen. Jolie Justus' relationship status on Facebook changed to "married." Then came this update: "headed back from Iowa with the 'ole ball-n-chain." This wouldn't have been a big deal except Justus married long-time partner, Shonda Garrison, in Iowa, where the state Supreme Court recently legalized same-sex marriage.Justus, Garrison and 16 other couples had caught an early morning bus bound for Iowa City to get hitched. I shot Justus a message of congratula
​In one way, it was surprising to see what might appear to be a blasphemous argument coming from the Missouri Record, a journal of politics and policy put out by the conservative Missourians for Responsible Government.But there it was, yesterday, a post headlined "Economics of Gay Marriage."In the post, Stephen Eisele, a Springfield political consultant and Obama delegate to last year's Democratic National Convention, notes that despite some recent electoral reversals for gay marriage, the gen
