A lesbian couple at a high school in Surprise, Ariz., was denied the right to be nominated for homecoming queen and queen by school administrators, who claimed that a policy prohibits same-sex couples from winning the title.

Two stories came out of the Sooner State today, one that makes a gay activist's blood boil, the other that warms that same activist's boiled-blood-filled heart. One involves some public school malfeasance, the other everyone's favorite Baptist church.