The forced air of frivolity and a united front on display during Tuesday’s press conference at which Donald Trump, corrupt and vulgar, announced to the surprise of almost anyone who could count to ten that Sister Carrie Prejean, Miss California, could in fact keep her crown, despite compromising the pageant, was just that – forced. Mere moments ago, Us magazine reported that Shanna Moakler, the Director of Miss California, has resigned. With the courage of her conviction, Shanna said that she “cannot with a clear conscious move forward supporting and promoting the Miss Universe Organization when I no longer believe in it.” Take that Trump!
A California Appeals Court Wednesday upheld the murder conviction of two men in connection to the brutal murder in 2002 of seventeen-year old Gwen Araujo, a transsexual. Mark Magidson and Jose Merel, twenty-eight and twenty-nine respectively, were convicted in 2005 of second-degree murder, but not committing a hate crime and each were sentenced to fifteen years to life in prison.
As I posted last night, the most interesting point from the New York State Assembly’s passage of a gay marriage bill – A07732, which read simply “relates to individual’s right to marry’ - by a vote of 89-52 was not that the measure passed, since the outcome was de facto, but that the legislation gained five more votes than the last time a similar measure put forth in 2007. Of the five who voted in 2009 in favor of the same-sex marriage, three say their minds were changed because they realized that civil unions as a compromise were an abject failure, not only perpetuating discrimination, but creating a climate where same-sex couples were separate and remained unequal.
The Associated Press reports that at this moment there are at least six candidates President Obama is considering for an appointment to be the next nominee for Supreme Court Justice to replace retiring Justice David Souter.
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