Ukraine & Murry High School
Here we are with yet another silly riddle:
What do Ukraine, Ohio, and Murry [Utah] High School have in common?
The answer, as revealed in the story Murray school's 'cutest couple' title awarded to lesbian pair (by Jessica Ravitz, in The Salt Lake Tribune), is: voting irregularities.
You see, after seniors had voted for "cutest couple" there was a mixup and two different couples were both told that they had won. Confusion ensued. A recount was called for, but ballots had accidentally been destroyed. (Clearly, the voting-irregularities zeitgeist was at work again.)
Finally, a re-vote was called for and held to resolve the issue, and the approximately 500 seniors at Murry High selected Kortni Coats and Taunica Crump (who had been dating since last summer) as the undisputed "cutest couple". (Full disclosure: I finally decided I had to mention this story here just because of the euphoneous sound of "Coats & Crump".)
Predictably, not everyone at Murry High was pleased with the result. One senior was quoted referring to Coats' & Crump's "lesbian disorder", while another was oddly concerned about what would happen should her children ever see the result in the relevant section of her yearbook (she herself "grew up knowing [homosexuality] was wrong.") Good heavens! How could she ever explain? Perhaps — one can only hope — her children, by the time they show any interest in Mom's yearbook, will be living in more enlightened times, even in Utah.