A California gay couple who were legally married in San Francisco last summer have had their wedding announcement rejected by a southern Utah newspaper that claimed to be friendly to gay wedding announcements. The Spectrum in St. George, Utah initially accepted the paid announcement and were going to run it without a photo. It seems then that the couple felt dissed, appealed to the publisher to run it with photo, and then the publisher simply rejected the ad altogether and said the paper's policy was to recognize only marriages legal under Utah state law.

It's unclear why the couple, Spencer Jones and Tyler Barrick (pictured), were trying to publish a wedding announcement a full year after they were married in a Utah paper, but one of them must be Mormon and wanted to stir up some shit over there. The liberal Salt Lake Tribune has agreed to run the announcement this weekend.