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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.”
“Biblically correct” : Believing in and leading your life based upon ridiculous, unprovable and unoriginal mythologies.
First I want to say I am Gay.
I do not believe we should show intolorates to this young woman for her opinion and beliefs. People are allowed to disagree as long as they do not incite harm. She did not win so it should not matter. This is a civil rights issue to be decided in the courts not in a contest. Her views are hers and I defend her right to vioce them.
The bottom line is that this is a civil rights issue;NOT A RELIGIOUS ONE….Miss California needs to put a “zipper” on it!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent! That was fast work. I Didn’t want you guys to get in trouble with the Miss America people. Kudos to you.
OMG: enough with political correctness! The woman is an idiot, plain and simple. We can tolerate the worst names tossed our way – so too damn bad if this bimbo’s feelings are hurt because she cannot put together a coherent sentence.
BTW: what the hell country does she live in anyway? ‘In my country people can choose…’ huh? Good thing you’ve got huge knockers, at least you’ll make some str8 moron happy.
B I M B OH !!OH, SORRY,,,,IS THAT RIGHT? SORRY ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
We don’t award a Miss USA title for someone’s opinion? Are we becoming the censors? Perez shouldn’t have asked that question if he didn’t want an answer. Furthermore, Perez shouldn’t have gone on his site and tv to say he didn’t award the title points because of the subject of her answer.
IF Perez had any class or intuition or intelligence he would have said her rhetoric was poorly organized. Her speech pattern not up to par. And her approach was not persuasive, nor well thought out. Instead he does his usual patter.
Mark my words, this is going to get worse for us. It is going to be used as an example of how we force ourselves on others. It is going to be used like the Anita Bryant campaign in the 1970’s.
Perez may just have set us back in our fight for equality.
Gosh – the Miss America show is a relic from our “former” mysogenistic generations. Why are we lending credence to any part of it? Where is the Menstrator when we need her…
Well, she’s just a regular little martyr, isn’t she? She’s being horribly persecuted. How dare we deride her for deriding us? Just who do we think we are?
*grins while rolling his eyes*
Doesn’t the Bible say something about mixing fabrics, about women being quiet, about fake boobs, etc.? I bet she’s “biblically correct.”
Whether Hilton should have asked this question or not is irrelevant; her answer only confirms what I personally believe: christians are the biggest threat to homosexuals in the U.S. today!!
I find it shameful that we are bashing on this girl. She has her faith, and she sticks to it. I applaud her for sticking to her principles, despite the political incorrectness of her statements. I believe that if asked for your opinion, you should give your opinion. That’s all this woman did. She is not mandating law! She has every right to believe what she wants to and to express that opinion, especially when directly asked!
That’;s right Kevin, and we have OUR right to offer our opinions up in return (unfortuantely, like her, without major mainstream attention). I don’t applaud ignorance disguised as “faith”.
I feel those who defend the Bible-believing valley girl, are being tolerant of intolerance. Imagine she’d in sweet-sounding tones with that bright smile, said, “no daughter of mine is going to marry a black man. But I don’t mean to offend anyone.” These are statments of exclusion. When exclusion has no logical reason, it’s probably the result of bigotry. I’m glad her comments have generated so much contorversy though. That’s progress. A few years ago that may not have been the case.
Of course, Chris, everyone has an opinion and the right to express it. That is no question. I don’t think people who hate Miss America are bad people. I just feel that to have such national attention about this is frivilous with so many other actually important events taking place.