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• GAY UPLE SUG OVER WEDDG PAMPHLETS SPARKS VISTAPRT VTIGATN
• VISTAPRT POSTS EMOTNAL OPEN LETTER TO LGBT MUNY AFTER GAY UPLE SENT ‘S’ LEAFLETS
• GAY UPLE SU VISTAPRT OVER RECEIVG RELIG PAMPHLET STEAD OF WEDDG PROGRAMS
• LAWSU: VISTAPRT SENT GAY UPLE SATAN PAMPHLETS STEAD OF WEDDG PROGRAMS
• VISTAPRT: ‘SATAN’ PAMPHLETS MAILED TO GAY COUPLE WERE MEANT FOR SOMEONE ELSE
• GAY COUPLE SU VISTAPRT FOR 'ANTI-GAY' FLYERS BEFORE WEDDG
• GAY UPLE SU VISTAPRT AFTER BEG SENT ‘S’ LEAFLETS STEAD OF WEDDG PROGRAMM
• GAY MARRIAGE
• VISTAPRT & GAY DISCRIMATN
• HONT MISTAKE: VISTAPRT SAYS GAY WEDDG MIX-UP UNTENTNAL
• GAY COUPLE SUG OVER WEDDG PAMPHLETS SPARKS VISTAPRT INVTIGATN
• VISTAPRT SENT ANTI-GAY PAMPHLETS ON EVE OF WEDDG: SU
• THIS GAY COUPLE ORRED WEDDG PROGRAMS BUT GOT SENT "SATAN" PAMPHLETS INSTEAD
• VISTAPRT CEO FEELS ‘EMPATHY AND SADNS’ OVER RELIG PAMPHLETS SENT TO GAY UPLE
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

GAY UPLE SUG OVER WEDDG PAMPHLETS SPARKS VISTAPRT VTIGATN

(Photo: Courty of Heasley and B)The two men who filed a lawsu Tuday agast Vistaprt — the popular prtg pany that sent the uple a boxful of anti-gay pamphlets stead of the weddg programs they’d orred — have prompted the prters to announce an vtigatn to the matter, as well as their mment to marriage equaly. ”They add, “This was by far the most direct, personal, and aggrsive act of homophobia eher of has experienced to date, ” regardg the shipment of homophobic pamphlets, which the uple received on the eve of their ceremony and a party for 100 guts.

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Prtg pany Vistaprt has renewed support for same-sex marriage followg a ntroversy where a gay uple was sent leaflets about s on the eve of their weddg.

VISTAPRT POSTS EMOTNAL OPEN LETTER TO LGBT MUNY AFTER GAY UPLE SENT ‘S’ LEAFLETS

The pany me unr fire this week after a gay uple said they received relig leaflets about s on the eve of their weddg. ByDEVIN VILLACISJanuary 18, 2018, 1:20 AM— -- A recently married gay uple has filed a feral lawsu agast prtg pany Vistaprt after allegedly receivg discrimatory flyers stead of their weddg programs. Vistaprt's CEO and Founr Trynka Sheman and Robert Keane released a long statement yterday apologizg for the mix-up that ma headl last month which anti-gay relig pamphlets were sent to a gay uple stead of the weddg programs they had orred.

A gay uple was exced to open a package ntag their weddg programs the day before their Pennsylvania ceremony September. Excement soon turned to shock when the uple found 80 pi of a relig pamphlet “wh hateful, discrimatory and anti-gay msag” stead of the 100 blue and gold programs they orred om, Stephen Heasley and Andrew B said they're sug the prtg pany to hold them acuntable. B bee they are gay — warn, that ‘Satan entic your flh wh evil sir, ’ ” the su says.

Yterday we reported on Andrew B and Stephen Heasley, a gay uple sug Massachetts-based Vistaprt after the pany sent them Satan pamphlets about livg s rather than the weddg programs they had orred.

GAY UPLE SU VISTAPRT OVER RECEIVG RELIG PAMPHLET STEAD OF WEDDG PROGRAMS

RELATED: Prtg Company Sent Homophobic ‘Satan' Pamphlets to Gay Couple Instead of Weddg Programs.

Skip to ma ntentBelmont, MAWatertown, MAWton, MALexgton, MANewton, MAArlgton, MAWellley, MAWayland, MAWchter, MACambridge, MAMassachettsTop Natnal NewsSee All CommuniWALTHAM, MA — Vistaprt is apologizg to a gay uple who is sug the prtg giant after the uple found relig lerature they felt targeted them for beg gay place of weddg programs they lawsu after the uple found about 80 pamphlets that clud phras warng of "the temptatns of the flh" stead of the 100 programs they had orred om the pany this past September.

LAWSU: VISTAPRT SENT GAY UPLE SATAN PAMPHLETS STEAD OF WEDDG PROGRAMS

The lyrics to the song they were to walk to the ceremony, “Treasure, ” by Above and Beyond were supposed to be on the back of the program, somethg they were exced they found si the box was not treasure: Instead, they say they found 80 pamphlets implyg that gay marriage was wrong and targetg them as a gay uple, acrdg to the lawsu. Although the words "gay" or "homosexual" do not appear the lerature, the men's attorney told Patch "the msage is que clear.

"'Ristg the temptatns of the flh, ' the ntext of a gay weddg certaly would have a very anti-gay msage, " Michael J.

"This isn't the only stance where a ctomer of a pany has received different treatment bee he or she is gay.

VISTAPRT: ‘SATAN’ PAMPHLETS MAILED TO GAY COUPLE WERE MEANT FOR SOMEONE ELSE

Willem said this se is particularly egreg, bee unlike some of the other s volvg a refal to serve an dividual bee he or she is gay, there's an agreement to provi clients wh somethg.

GAY COUPLE SU VISTAPRT FOR 'ANTI-GAY' FLYERS BEFORE WEDDG

"And rather than sayg 'we won't serve you, ' someone took an act affirmatively attackg our clients for beg gay. A gay uple is sug Vistaprt over dozens of relig leaflets about s livered stead of their weddg programm. Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn.

” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners.

C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch.

GAY UPLE SU VISTAPRT AFTER BEG SENT ‘S’ LEAFLETS STEAD OF WEDDG PROGRAMM

Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs. That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S.

GAY MARRIAGE

Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v.

The state fally troduced the untry to gay marriage (m the feral benefs) when began issug same-sex marriage licens on May 17, that year, the U. Bh—that would outlaw gay marriage across the untry. 2004 was notable for upl many other stat as well, though for the oppose reason: Ten typilly nservative stat, along wh Oregon, enacted state-level bans on gay marriage.

Kansas and Texas were next 2005, and 2006 saw seven more stat passg Constutnal amendments agast gay towards the end of the , gay marriage beme legal var stat, cludg Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (the first state to approve by legislative means) and New Hampshire. Domtic Partnerships Throughout the and the begng of the next, California equently ma headl for seawg on the gay marriage state was the first to pass a domtic partnership statute 1999, and legislators tried to pass a same-sex marriage bill 2005 and 2007.

VISTAPRT & GAY DISCRIMATN

Perry legalized same-sex marriage early 2010s ntued the state-level battl over gay marriage that fed the precedg , wh at least one notable event.

For the first time the untry’s history, voters (rather than judg or legislators) Mae, Maryland, and Washgton approved Constutnal amendments permtg same-sex marriage marriage also beme a feral issue 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA—the part of the 1996 law that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman—to be unnstutnal. Wdsor, nservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn June this time, was still outlawed only 13 stat, and more than 20 other untri had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands December 2000.

HONT MISTAKE: VISTAPRT SAYS GAY WEDDG MIX-UP UNTENTNAL

I thk somewhere Ameri on the eve of this uple’s weddg, some bigoted, homophobic group was openg a box of weddg programs when they were expectg hate-filled pamphlets.

I do feel for the gay uple (what a strs that mt be for them! ), but I have to adm that envisng a homophobic group receivg the weddg programs mak me lgh out loud.

Especially sce they were gay weddg programs. My gus is that they are ed to hearg about other gay uple beg discrimated agast and jt assumed that was what was happeng.

GAY COUPLE SUG OVER WEDDG PAMPHLETS SPARKS VISTAPRT INVTIGATN

I was actually expectg much more hate filled and homophobic based on several of the news articl. It actually don't mentn gays at all, but is a general rist temptatn type msage.

There isn't exactly a shortage of material out there if you wanted to nmn a gay weddg. B bee they are gay — warn that ‘Satan entic your flh wh evil sir, ’” the su says.

BOSTON, MA — The CEO of a prtg pany that was sued by a gay uple who received pamphlets about temptatn and s stead of weddg programs said Tuday that was an untentnal orr mix-up.

VISTAPRT SENT ANTI-GAY PAMPHLETS ON EVE OF WEDDG: SU

PREVIOUSLY: Gay Couple Su Vistaprt For 'Anti-Gay' Flyers Before Weddg Stephen Heasley and Andrew B filed a lawsu feral urt Boston last month, accg the pany of attackg them bee they are gay by replacg their programs wh the relig pamphlets.

THIS GAY COUPLE ORRED WEDDG PROGRAMS BUT GOT SENT "SATAN" PAMPHLETS INSTEAD

The two men who filed a lawsu Tuday agast Vistaprt — the popular prtg pany that sent the uple a boxful of anti-gay pamphlets stead of the weddgprograms they’d orred — have prompted the prters to announce an vtigatn to the matter, as well as their mment to marriage equaly.

VISTAPRT CEO FEELS ‘EMPATHY AND SADNS’ OVER RELIG PAMPHLETS SENT TO GAY UPLE

By Christe Powell (January 16, 2018, 8:12 PM EST) -- A recently married gay uple sued Vistaprt Massachetts feral urt Tuday, claimg that the ctom prtg pany sent them pi of a pamphlet ntag passag "equatg their relatnship to Satan's temptatn" rather than the weddg programs they had orred....

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As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996.

Gay marriage was the predomant "culture war" issue of Gee W. Obergefell origated wh a gay uple, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, who were married Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal, but whose marriage was not regnized by Oh thori.