You like so many others confuse “freedom of speech” with “Acceptance of speech.” Say what you want, I can’t stop you. But I don’t have to approve of your opinions, and I don’t have to leave your opinions unchallenged.

Actually this muddle of saccharine manners and legal oppression is pretty typical for the bigots. Well… at least they claim to respect us and make some noises — however hypocritically — about how we should have at least some equal rights. This is some kind of a step forward, but when I hear such vapid crap I never know whether to laugh or to cry.

To those who wish an analogy, imagine Miss California in 1967 expressing her disagreement with the SCOTUS decision on Loving v Virginia and lifting the ban on interracial heterosexual marriage.

Let us be clear. Sixteen states did not recognize black and white interracial marriage. This also extended to many WWII GI’s who returned from Occupied Japan with more than the usual china now worth a small fortune. They came back with a wife. I have a few Amerasian friends who are half-Japanese and half-white, born, like me, in 1946. If they returned, they had to live outside those sixteen states that remained.

I, too, am very happy that it cost her the prize and title. She will however be rewarded by right wing billionaire homophobes who will use her as a prop against the prop, and then spew her out into a successful celebrity career.

His strategy was brilliant. If on one hand she came out in support of marriage equality, Perez scores one for our side by getting an endorsement on national tv. If she comes off as an ignorant bigot, as she did, then her prejudice is exposed for all to see, and she reaps the fallout for it. If you ask me, he put a lot of thought into the response he might get and she played right into his hands.

“If Miss California has this opinion of same sex mariage, who among us should criticize her.”

Ummm…ALL OF US! (Except for the neutered, ass-kissing lapdogs some in our community have become.) It is one thing to respect the right of a person to HAVE an opinion, but this does NOT automatically mean we must respect the intelligence, or lack thereof, of that opinion. Those are two separate and entirely different things. I respect her right to be a stupid bigot, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to accept that her statement has any credibility or value.

“Lets issue out criticism only when it is deserved.”

It was deserved. A national spokesperson should represent everyone, otherwise rename the pagent to the Miss WASP Heterosexual Bigot T&A Contest to conform with truth-in-labeling laws.

What she did, was use a public platform to discriminate against a particular group of people.

Her having done so, I find it ironic that you feel her rights are being violated because of the push back.

You remind me a person who accuses the rape victim instead of the perpetrator!

Although I support gay Marriage, why would Perez hilton ask a question without conisidering the potential reponse he could get.

I think this whole mess is one of those “one steps backward” scenarios.
If Miss California has this opinion of same sex mariage, who among us should criticize her. What has happened is that Perez Hilton an others in the Gay community who have criticized Miss California have ended up emboldening her view in the eyes of the public.
We end up looking like a group that only respects those that think like us. Lets issue out criticism only when it is deserved.

Perez, you may know gossip and gashion but you got a lot to learn about advancing our civil rights. respectfully, now that you opened up your mouth and made our side look ridiculous, please shut-up and stick to the gossip and ladieas fashions.