Gay Marriage Scandal Over Miss California
April 21, 2009 by admin
Filed under Stories Of Interest
Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, of San Diego, did not capture the Miss USA crown on Sunday night and many speculate that her answer to a gay rights question might have cost her the title. Here is a transcript of the exchange:
Perez Hilton: “Vermont recently became the 4th state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit. Why or why not?”
Prejean: “Well, I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be between a man and a woman. Thank you very much.”
‘How Far Can You Bounce?’ Shouts Push Suicidal Teen to Death
October 2, 2008 by admin
Filed under Moral Decay
Jeering onlookers goaded a teenager in Britain to jump to his death, undermining police efforts to talk him down, and then took pictures of the body.
Tuesday as 17-year-old Shaun Dykes prepared to jump from the top of a multi-storey carpark in Derby, northern England, spectators allegedly shouted to him: “How far can you bounce?,” the U.K.’s MailOnline reported.
As Dykes hesitated for three hours on the ledge while police unsuccessfully tried to reason him out of taking his life, teenagers who had gathered below shouted “Jump” and “Get on with it,” according to police and witnesses.
Then after Dykes lay in a crumpled heap on the pavement the same hecklers rushed out from behind the police cordon to take photos of the body.
“When he (Dykes) fell, lots of people were screaming and crying but there were several groups of youths who ran from behind the cordon and looked like they were taking pictures with their mobile phones,” a local shopkeeper was quoted as telling the MailOnline.
“I found that sickening — why would anyone want to take pictures of something like that?”
Dykes was believed to have been suffering from depression and struggling to overcome a relationship breakdown.
Superintendent Andy Hough, of Derbyshire police, said he was disappointed and disturbed by the people heard encouraging Dykes to jump.
“I find it a disturbing and shocking reflection on society when people feel inclined to do that,” Supt Hough told the MailOnline.
