Alabama Company Refuses To Print LGBT+ Students Magazine
A printing company in Alabama has refused to print an issue of a university’s LGBT+ inclusive student magazine.
Interstate Printing cited its Christian principles and although it has been printing Due South, a student publication for the University of South Alabama since 2012, this issue they declined to print.
“After reviewing the subject matter of the 2019 Fall edition of Due South, we must respectfully decline to print this issue of the publication,” Interstate Printing spokeswoman Tracey Smith wrote in an email to Editor-in-Chief Sara Boone Boone. “As the magazine expresses freedom of lifestyles, we must express our freedom by declining to print on the principle that we are a Christian company that does not adhere to the content.”
Boone’s responded that “This is more than having personal beliefs. This is actively discriminating against a group of people and trying to silence their stories.”
The most recent issue featured topics including body positivity, religion, disability and LGBTQ issues.
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