There’s been a lot of fuss lately about Miss California Carrie Prejean and her botched answer to Perez Hilton’s question during the Miss USA pageant a couple weeks ago. This was her answer:
PEREZ: Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?
CARRIE: 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 my country and my family I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anyone out there but that's how I was raised and that's how I think it should be between a man and a woman.
I personally think this deserves a "HO-SIT-DOWN" as well as her crown stripped away, and here's why:
1. She's abandoned her original platform cause of special needs children and now feels the need to actively campaign against gay marriage, becoming spokesperson for the National Organization for Marriage. In her contract , those holding positions in the Miss **** position must not become spokespersons for unapproved causes, nor are they supposed to have unapproved speaking arrangements, as Miss ShitForBrains has been doing all month on Faux (FOX) News and other places.
2. She lied to pageant officials. The contract asks if they ever took nude or semi nude photos; she answered NO. Penalties for discovery of such photos include crown revocation.
Faux News and Prejean’s supporters are saying a smear campaign has been run against her simply because she spoke her mind honestly. The term “Smear campaign” implies lies being told, yet nothing I’ve read about her has been untrue. She has taken it upon herself to speak out publicly about her opinions and now she's in the limelight and must deal with the backlash that comes with being a public figure. She is 100% entitled to her own opinions & beliefs, free to hate gays, blacks, anyone she wants to. But in a beauty pageant, you need to be diplomatic with your answers. She shouldn’t be punished for her personal opinion, but deserves to be punished for breaking rules of the pageant and the manner in which she is poorly representing the state of California.
However I do find it hypocritical that she received breast implants paid for by the Miss California Organization, yet they want this girl-next-door image. Only in California does the girl next door have silicone tigg ole bittys. However the stipulations in the contract she signed are the rules of the Miss California Organization. While misguided, those are rules she chose to play by; since she broke them, she should have to deal with the consequences.
As a pageant contestant, there are many ways to answer controversial questions like that diplomatically. She could have easily said "I think it's great that we live in a country where we have the right to choose and vote on the subject of gay marriage. That is an issue that should be decided upon by the voters, and not just one person." I always see contestants give "pageant answers" and go on to win a competition and her bumbling, inarticulate answer was delivered terribly, regardless of her opinion.
Hot - Topic questions should definitely be included because representing the country- even as a beauty contestant, people (mostly young girls with pageant aspirations) look up to you. You never know, in this world of super-connectivity via technology, today's public figures have to deal with hot-topics all the time. You want to know that they won't crack under pressure as Prejean did.
For S & G’s
Perez Hilton calling her a dumb bitch after the pageant. Lots of shade being thrown lol
