Brittany Murphy has died. The actress was 32. Her mother reportedly discovered her body early Sunday morning in Los Angeles, California, Murphy having gone into cardiac arrest, the Los Angeles Times reporting that she was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
According to the National Post, Liberal Member of Parliament Scott Brison has been inundated with support after an article about Brison, who is openly gay, appeared in the Globe and Mail featuring the MP’s Christmas card that features Scott, his husband Maxime St. Pierre, and the couple’s golden retriever Simba and the comments section was quite quickly with hateful, homophobic postings, the paper taking the unusual step of closing the section less than an hour after it was opened to moderation. Brison, speaking from his home in Cheverie, Nova Scotia, said that he “had so many positive e-mails, calls from over the last few days from across the riding, across Canada and around the world,” adding that “the overwhelming opinion of Canadians is that we’re looking forward to a day where a Christmas card showing two partners and a dog, next to fields in rural Nova Scotia is not a big deal. In fact, I never expected there to be a news story in the first place; it’s just a simple card. Politicians sending family Christmas card is not news.”
The London Times reports that the BBC has been warned by “government’s equality czar that it could face legal sanctions if comments made by the public on its website fall foul of Labour’s new anti-discrimination laws.” Thursday, the BBC’s World Service section of its online news page, hosted a discussion that asked “Should homosexuals face execution” ahead of a program on Uganda’s proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill, but the comments section garnered over six hundred posting, only two hundred which were approved as being appropriate by the moderators.
The Associated Press is reporting that arguments will be heard in a Boston, Massachusetts federal court regarding the request of a murderer seeking to have the state pay for gender reassignment surgery. Michelle Kosilek, born Robert, has been living as a woman in all male prison since being sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her wife Cheryl in 1990. In 2000, she sued the state, saying its refusal to provide the surgery violated her constitutional right to protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
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