Carrie Prejean: beauty queen ursurped
No sooner than a month after Donald Trump, owner of the Miss USA Organization, declared that Carrie Prejean would retain her crown as Miss California, Ms Prejean last week had her crown wrested away from her – with the blessing of Mr Trump.
There is no doubt that the majority of the gay and lesbian community would have celebrated the issuance of the pinkslip to Ms Prejean following her comments in support of opposite-sex marriage in last April’s Miss USA beauty pageant. At the pageant, Ms Prejean fielded a question from gay celebrity personality Perez Hilton on what she thought about gay marriage; her response, though far from eloquent, was simple, respectful and to the point: she believes… Continue reading ...
Carrie Prejean: nude pics, hypocrisy, intolerance and … irrelevancy 101
Since Carrie Prejean became an American household name on April 19 during the Miss USA beauty pageant for her “politically incorrect” response to a question on same-sex marriage, there has been no end of malicious attacks on her name – in the media and the blogosphere.
To recap, Ms Prejean answered that she believed marriage was to be between one man and one woman. When she completed her answer, two things occurred: 1) the crowd at the pageant erupted in applause in support of her answer; 2) the blogosphere began lighting up with livid, pro-homosexual rants denouncing her “bigotry” and proceeded to drag out the shovels from their sheds to see what dirt they could dig up.
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Fake breasts, but real gutsy answers: Carrie Prejean
Carrie Prejean is a brave soul. As many would now be aware, the Miss California beauty queen, in the Miss USA beauty pageant this past April, was one of the front runners for taking out the title – she was easily top three and was the likely winning candidate. At least she was until she honestly spoke her mind regarding the question put to her by celebrity blogger, radio host and author Perez Hilton, who asked: what is your view on same-sex marriage.
Ms Prejean’s answer was simple, non-condescending, fair, non-judgemental and, above all else, brave:
I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in… Continue reading ...
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