Monday, November 19, 2018
White magazine shuts down after refusing to feature same-sex weddings
No freedom of religion for Christians
One of Australia's leading wedding magazines, White, is shutting down following its refusal to feature same-sex weddings.
Founders Luke and Carla Burrell, who are Christian, say the magazine became the target of a damaging campaign after Australia voted to legalise same-sex marriage last year, and a number of advertisers withdrew their support.
"White Magazine is no longer economically viable," they said in a blog post. "As much as we love what we do and are inspired by the positive impact it's had, we need to draw the curtain on this part of our lives."
Earlier this year, hundreds of wedding industry professionals boycotted the magazine over its lack of LGBTQI diversity.
Former contributor Lara Hotz, who photographed a number of covers for the magazine, told Hack it made her feel "extremely hurt".
"It appears they are happy to take money, content and photographs from LGBTQI advertisers and contributors, but are yet to support and represent us in the same way as heterosexual couples are represented in the magazine," she said.
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In the absence of a Supreme Court ruling on this, we have similar crap happening here in the USA. As a Christian, I tolerate homosexual matrimony but it is certainly not a marriage and the government should not be forcing business owners to accept that it is.
There is nothing "similar" about this at all, Bill R.
Here a business made a decision based on their beliefs. (No government involvement.) The "independent contractors" and customers said they don't support the business' beliefs and would do business with the company. (Still no government involvement.)
Without the workers and the market, the business is closing. (And again they aren't closing because of government actions.)
The only way that the business could have stayed open is that the government demanded that workers work for the business and that people buy the magazine. Such an action would be just as bad, if not worse than companies being forced to act against their beliefs.
This is one case where the market and the marketplace of ideas worked. There was no government pressure, no government involvement, etc. The market itself decided.
We should all be fine with that.
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