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Apr
21
Miss California Says Anti-Gay Remarks Cost Her Miss USA Crown
Filed Under LGBT, Women's Issues, WTF?
I don’t know what annoyed me the most: Miss California’s big ass teeth, Perez Hilton judging a beauty pageant, or the fact that we STILL have beauty pageants in this country.
Miss California Carrie Prejean claims she lost the Miss USA pageant because of her answer to Perez Hilton’s question about gay marriage. Prejean said, “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.”
That’s how she was raised? She couldn’t come up with anything better than that?
“It is a very touchy subject and [Perez Hilton] is a homosexual, and I see where he was coming from and I see the audience would’ve wanted me to be more politically correct,” Prejean added.
Supporters of gay marriage and anti-gay marriage folks had a shouting match in the lobby after the contest ended. Prejean is very confident she would’ve won the contest had she given a more PC answer to Hilton’s question. She said: “It did cost me my crown.” Prejean says she has no regrets even though she lost to Ms. North Carolina.
Of course Prejean has no worries. I’m sure she’ll secure dozens of spokesperson offers from anti-gay organizations who want to use her overnight star status to push their hateful anti-gay agenda.
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What are people saying about this on Facebook and Twitter?
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Update: Miss California defends her anti-gay marriage comments.
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Update: I just saw an update on Twitter that suggests Miss California is a former Hustler magazine model. I haven’t confirmed this information yet. Still working on that.
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Well, I wish I could tell Carrie I was raised to be just to all people but to never ask clueless beauty pageant runner-ups for their thoughts on anything except which hairspray to use.
That’s probably one question she definitely wasn’t prepared for. She was hoping for a less controversial question about education, children, world peace, or the environment. She had a canned response ready for all of those scenarios. The way she stumbled over answering Perez’s question, you could tell she was completely unprepared.
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