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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJuly 6th, 2011
Brandon McInerney (left), Lawrence King (right)
TODAY’S AGENDA (OURS):
Lawrence King Murder Trial Continues: Chatsworth, CA. Yesterday’s trial was devoted to opening remarks by the prosecutors and defense lawyers for Brandon McInerney, who has been charged with murder for shooting 15-year-old Lawrence King in an Oxnard classroom three years ago. McInerney was fourteen at the time of the shooting, but he is being tried as an adult. You can see yesterday’s coverage here. When the trial resumes today, McInerney’s older brother, James Bing, 25, won’t be there. Yesterday, he approached jurors outside the courtroom, telling them “the fate of my brother is in your hands.” Superior Court Judge Charles Campbell banished Bing from the courthouse for the duration of the trial, unless he is called as a witness.
Pride Celebrations This Weekend: Cincinnati, OH; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Green Bay, WI; Munich, Germany; Porto, Portugal; Prince George, BC; San Luis Obispo, CA; Santa Barbara, CA; Sitges, Catalonia (Spain); Tacoma, WA; Vancouver, WA; and Victoria, BC.
And Also: Bear Week, Provincetown, MA.
TODAY’S AGENDA (THEIRS):
Florida Awake!: Pace, FL. Florida is firmly in the hands of a tea-party governor and with the GOP holding 70% of the state Senate and two-thirds of the House, the state is in conservatism’s tightest grip. And yet for all of that, Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver thinks “Florida must rise up and take back its state!” (Exclamation point in the original.) That’s why he will be joining former Texas State Rep Rick Green, who is a speaker for discredited “historian” Dave Barton’s Wallbuilders, for an evening of sheer lunacy tonight at the Pace Assembly Ministries at 7:00 p.m.
JeÌroÌ‚me Duquesnoy (left), Piete, 1654 (right)
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY:
Jérôme Duquesnoy: 1602. The Flemish artist was, in his day, regarded as one of the finest sculptors of the seventeenth century. In 1644, Duquesnoy was commissioned to create statues for the nave of the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula in Brussels, and the following year he was appointed “architecte, statuaire et sculpteur de la Cour” to Archduke Leopold William, Regent of the Netherlands. it was during the time where he produced some of his most famous works, many of which depicted strong, muscled male figures in the Hellenic tradition. In 1651, he became Court Architect and Sculptor, and in 1654 he went to Ghent to fulfill several commissions when he was accused of indecencies with his assistants. The Privy Council of Ghent convicted Duquesnoy of sodomy and sentenced him to death. He was bound to a stake in the Grain Market in the center of the city, strangled, and his body reduced to ashes. His reputation was destroyed and his memory repressed. It has only been recently that critical attention has returned to his work.
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