Damn, peeps down in Galveston, Texas take their news seriously. And when we say "seriously", we mean they seriously don't want anything even closely resembling an endorsement of gay marriage, tolerance or...shutter...acceptance.

It seems that The Galveston County Daily News ran a story on gay marriage as seen through the eyes of two homo lover birds, David and Ernie Aguilar. It's really a pretty standard story: reporter Chad Greene examines their meeting, the trajectory of their relationship and the pre-wedding jitters typical of such a commitment.

Of course, not everyone thought the story was standard and the paper found itself drowning in complaints. One disgruntled reader fumed:

I am disgusted and appalled at the coverage of a homosexual wedding...Homosexuality is not — I repeat, is not — an alternate lifestyle but is a sin. Let’s call it what it is. Nowhere in the Bible does God call homosexuality an alternative lifestyle, and I do not believe that it should be seen as such. To what depths of carnage will your newspaper go in order to sell newspapers?...Truly, God has wept over this latest flagrant violation of all that He stands for. I know Christians of all denominations have.

While we're not sure God's been reading the paper and the venomous reactions, editor Dolph Tillotson certainly has been. He wrote a Thanksgiving rebuttal:

I am sorry many readers were offended. I understand that, in the eyes of many, we may have overdone the story, and maybe that is so.

However, I am not sorry we published the story.
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But I am sick at heart and shaken over the malice I’ve experienced this week, wave on wave, pure and hard as diamonds.

Normally, we live in a peaceful corner of the world, and it’s rare here to see hate wearing no mask. But that is the way I will remember this Thanksgiving.

(For more on this story, head on over to Marry in Massachusetts. How do we know? Good old Ryan Adams.)