Going to far

By Kellie Green

Newspapers are published everywhere, in America, different countries, high schools, colleges, the lists goes on and on. Publishers of newspapers should always be aware of what they are printing no matter who their target audience are.

As I was going through a couple of blogs online I came across a blog about a column that was posted in the University of Washington's school newspaper. The column was entitle Gay Marriage? Let's stop and think about this.

The article is an opinion column but in my opinion the publisher should have read through the article and thought about what kind of message they were sending out to their readers. The article is very disrespecting not only to homosexual men and women but also to any one that supports the idea of legalizing gay marriage.

The article stated that if, "you legalized gay marriage, why not polygamy, incest, bestiality or any other form of union?" How can we compare gay marriage to any of these? I think that opinion columns are necessary and that people should be allowed state their opinions about many issues but this seems to go a little far.

Something that to me seems like poor journalism is that the publisher of the paper didn't seem to think about what they were publishing before they did. The article caused a major upset in the college and many students are protesting the article.

The article even included a offensive picture, the one I have included, in its article.

Opinion pieces cause controversies all the time but when is it that an article is just to much?

This article to me seems like it should not have been published. It feels overlooked by the publisher because they should have known what problems it would cause for those that would be reading it.