The Beastie Boys who have gained negative attention for some of their homo phobic lyrics in their first album, “Licenced to Ill”.  In the late 90′s  the group issued a formal appology in EW magazine, ”I would like to… formally apologize to the entire gay and lesbian community for the s—ty and ignorant things we said on our first record,” Horovitz wrote. ”There are no excuses. But time has healed our stupidity…. We have learned and sincerely changed since the ’80s…. We hope that you’ll accept this long overdue apology.”

Choi is a 2003 West Point graduate and California native who served in Iraq in 2006 and 2007 with the 10th Mountain Division.  In a discussion about the upcoming hearing, he told CNN’s “American Morning” on Monday that he is acting on “the lessons that I learned at West Point — honesty and courage and integrity”.  

Below is clip from Keith Oberman’s Show today in which he called the discharge recommendation “Goddamned Wrong”.

Asked judge Perez Hilton to Prejean,  “Vermont recently became the 4th state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit. Why or why not?”

We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage,” Prejean said. “And you know what, I think 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.”

The audience reaction to Prejean’s answer was immediately mixed with boos and cheers.   A furious Perez hilton answered with a video response on his blog call Prejean a B%$^@, which he later apologized for and then retracted the apology on an interview with MSNBC.

See the video of Prejeans response and Perez’s MSNBC interview below!