One of Australia's leading wedding magazines is shutting down after it refused to feature same-sex couples. Luke and Carla Burrell, founders of White magazine, said advertisers had abandoned them in droves.
The Christian couple said they made the choice because they had "no desire to create a social, political or legal war".
Australia legalized gay marriage last year after the country overwhelmingly voted in favor of it.
In a farewell post on its website, the magazine's founders said they had been targeted by "a flood of judgement," and that couples they featured had been sent online abuse. The post drew a mixed response, with some praising the founders for sticking to their principles, and others branding them homophobes who did not deserve to be in business.
"It doesn't seem to me that your agenda is just to love, it seems like your agenda is just to love straight people," wrote one of their readers.
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