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...former Miss West Virginia, the contests may have been good fun. For pageant organizers, they often mean big bucks. Throughout the country, especially in California and the South, a complex network of pageant systems, as they are called, make up the circuit, with pageants sponsored by the likes of Hawaiian Tropic and Beauty Unlimited held in shopping malls and hotel ballrooms. According to Ted Cohen, editor of the International Directory of Pageants, there are about 3,000 pageants a year in the U.S., 500 of which cater to the preteen-and-under set. Children could compete every weekend, if they...
...others award cars, cash or scholarship money. A pageant based in Florida, Sunburst U.S.A. International, gives away more than $1 million in prizes every year. At age six, Lisa Iverson is already "Miss American Beauty Queen of Hearts," "Children of the World Supreme Winner," "U.S.A. National Scholarship Little Miss," Hawaiian Tropic "Superstar Photogenic," Hawaiian Tropic "Hollywood Babe" and "Miss American Starlet Fashion Model." She has won enough money to pay for college...
Governor William F. Weld '66 has sagaciously decided that Massachusetts will recognize gay marriages attained in other states after a Hawaiian Circuit Court judge ruled against a ban on legalizing homosexual union. Hawaii's Supreme Court may ultimately strike down the lower court's ruling--which has already been stayed--that the state must show an as-yet unproven compelling interest in order to deny marriage to homosexuals. But the willingness of the Governor to take this step toward legitimizing gay marriages in Massachusetts and elsewhere is encouraging. Furthermore, we hope he and the Massachusetts government will follow Hawaii...
...legalization of gay marriage does not only serve as a moral boon to homosexuals, but as an economic one as well. If all goes well with the Hawaiian Supreme Court's decision, then homosexuals in Massachusetts can look forward to sharing in everything from their spouse's health and dental insurance plans to their estates after death. Moreover, legalizing gay marriage allows for the adoption of children by homosexuals and their full participation in communal lives as husbands and wives, mothers and fathers. We applaud Governor Weld's decision to extend greater measures of freedom and equality to homosexuals...
This month's decision by a Hawaiian judge to legalize gay marriages throws a monkey wrench into the already controversial debate over whether Harvard's Memorial Church should perform same-sex commitment ceremonies...