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04.22.2009 11:20am EDT
(Los Angeles, California) Miss California says she stands by her anti-gay-marriage comments, even though they may have cost her the Miss USA crown.
Carrie Prejean defended her views Tuesday on NBC’s “Today” show, telling host Matt Lauer that she spoke from the heart during Sunday’s pageant when she said that “marriage should be between a man and a woman.”The beauty queen’s response to a question from openly gay pageant judge and celebrity blogger Perez Hilton has received more attention than the winner, Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton. During the pageant, Hilton asked Prejean if every state should follow Vermont in legalizing same sex marriage.
“I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other,” Prejean responded. “But in my country, and in my family, I think that I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised.”
Hilton, who also appeared on the “Today” show Tuesday, said his question was relevant and that Prejean should have “left her politics and her religion out because Miss USA represents all Americans.”
GLAAD’s Neil Giuliano noted in a statement that “Much of the media’s coverage of this story seems to be missing the main point, which is that what Prejean said is simply inaccurate. Contrary to Prejean’s claim that people can choose who they want to marry, loving, committed gay and lesbian couples are in fact denied that choice in all but a few states, and all such couples are also denied the federal security and protections that come with marriage.
Prejean, who was named first runner-up at the pageant, told Lauer that she knew “at that moment after I’d answered the question, I knew that I was not going to win because of my answer.” Still, she stands by her statements.
“I don’t take back what I said,” she told Lauer, adding that she “had spoken from my heart, from my beliefs and for my God.”
“It’s not about being politically correct,” she said. “For me, it’s about being biblically correct.”
“It’s not about being politically correct,” Carrie Prejean said. “For me, it’s about being biblically correct.”
Oh, really? Did you have sex before marriage? If so, you should be stoned to death, for that would be biblically correct, Deuteronomy 22:20.
Can you correct the headline. She was Miss California USA not Miss California America. That is a totally different pageant and is therefore a totally different person. You wouldn’t want get into trouble for a simple slip of the tongue.
Personally, I don’t think that the question should have been asked in the first place. Yes I am lesbian and would love to get married one day but what was the relevance to that question? It was a win-win, lose-lose situation.
What’s all the fuss about?
She was asked a direct question—she answered a direct question!
What’s the big deal?!
What relevance did a gay rights question have—at the “Miss America” pageant anyway?
Oh, by the way—the majority of California voters, decided the gay marriage issue, it the last election—didn’t they?
The 15 minutes of Fame is up — let’s stop talking about this/her/and all the negativity — move on to “greener” fields and do something instead of complaining about the past!
And in our theocracy, it’s always important that civil law reflect Biblical law.
Idjit!
It’s funny how Perez Hilton says “she should have left her beliefs and politics out of it” so why bring in something like that into the Beauty Pagent then????? This is such a political question. The question SHOULD have NEVER been asked. It’s so one sided it’s pathetic.
She is now just back to being a private citizen, no longer accorded the public limelight of a Miss California.
I am much more concerned about what someone in a public position of authority and/or of a lawmaking capacity has to say about our community than I am about someone in pageants that are temporary in nature, come and go and just about skin deep beauty. I haven’t seen a Miss America pageant for years as they no longer impress me as they used to 45 years ago when I was 10.
This lady is now a thing of the past and her mutterings don’t carry the weight of being in the public eye anymore anyway.
Considering the fact that precious little in the Bible is in fact – true, being “biblically correct” is just a gross display of ignorance. She does give new meaning to “dumb blonde” though.
I was very galled when she said you can choose either form of marriage?? Most GBLT folk do not have the option. Seems she is confusing orientaion with marriage civil rights. Like a lot of small minded people.
It is easy to be judgemental when you are tall white and lovely.
I sort of wish Perez Hiltion would have asked her what she thought about minority rights vs. majority rule regarding Prop 8. But this may have made her head explode.
Tom in Long Beach (further embarrassed by people from my state)
She does not deserve Ms whatever not because of her voicing her opinion but because of her execution of voicing her opinion. She did not answer the question fully nor did she do it a coherent way.
What an ignorant woman!!! She will eventually see how stupid she sounds and how much that will hurt her when she tries to involve herself in the community.
I am officially over this whole story.
And I suppose prancing aroung with your sexual parts hanging out for all of America to see is biblically correct!
She blew it for not being able to keep her ‘personal’ beliefs out of a very public debate…
Maturity would have politely deflected the question..
she is too immature.