Apparently being Miss California means being against gay marriage

[marmar]

New Miss California USA also against gay marriage
Friday, June 12, 2009



(06-12) 15:09 PDT Los Angeles, CA (AP) --

Miss California USA's executive director says the pageant would never try to silence new titleholder Tami Farrell's stance against gay marriage.

Keith Lewis told The Associated Press on Friday that he wants all of the beauty contestants he deals with to be able to voice their opinions as long as they don't violate their contracts.

Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who was given a second chance earlier, lost her title Wednesday after Lewis said she skipped pageant events while speaking out against gay marriage during unsanctioned appearances.

In a television interview Thursday, Farrell said she believed marriage should be between a man and a woman. But she added: "I don't think I have the right or anybody has the right to tell somebody who they can or can't love."

Prejean says she was dethroned because during the Miss USA pageant she said gays shouldn't be allowed to marry.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/06/10/state/n121720D67.DTL

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. What are the odds that a girl can't become "Miss CA"

without being against gay marriage?

[Swamp Rat]

3. Place your bets...

[Tumbulu]

2. Why does anyone care what a beauty queen thinks or says?

I am sick and tired of this ridiculous attention to someone who is picked for being "beautiful" in our current cultural meme.

The MSM needs to be called out for paying any attention to this sillyness and foisting the continued idea that "beauty" in girls and women is something to be exploited and commercialized.

[Swamp Rat]

4. Because she may become the next GOP candidate?

[JerseygirlCT]

7. ROFL! nt

[Iggo]

5. No.

What is apparent is that two members of the pageant culture (and maybe a majority of them, I dunno) are anti-gay.

You ever been to a beauty pageant? Scary...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. There have been a few instances of gay high school kids

being elected "Homecoming Queen" recently....not enough to make it a trend; but I could see that happening in the near future. I'd like to think this sort of thing could put the pageant biz on its ear. Can you imagine the uproar if men wanted to compete along with women?

[JerseygirlCT]

6. Well, on the bright side, that does totally undercut Prejean's nonsense

about being fired for being against gay marriage. (And in favor of opposite marriage).

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. That's true...

...and it makes her sponsors and supporters look more foolish, too.

Still, it'd be nice if people could just evolve. I guess the pageant element of society will be one of the last to do so.

[JerseygirlCT]

13. Yeah, I wouldn't look for a lot of evolution in that group

It's all about hairspray, bleach, spray tans and fake boobs.

Not a lot of thought going on in those circles. Though you'd think they'd realize that gay guys are a big part of their diminishing audience... Well, I guess that circles back to not a lot of thought, doesn't it?

[Garbo 2004]

8. Corporate owned/sponsored pageants pick spokesmodels. Trump & NBC own this gig. nt

[Deja Q]

11. Because if the replacement was pro civil union/marriage then Carrie would get to say

"I was discriminated against for my views".


These people are damned regardless of what they do, just because of the veneer and not because the whole pageant thing might be sexist or shallow or whatever...

Not to mention this trolling is... pathetic. Whatever they do, established cultural custom or anything else, there's always a spin.

So, if I may ask, would you prefer they get someone pro-gay? I mean, we need Prejean to have another 30 minutes and to really take the free speech argument down the garden path once again... only this time it would work in her favor and by golly that would be wrong because only us are allowed to have our say... (:sarcasm:)


"They came after the ____ and I did not care because I was not one." (See, it's just the same when we're not the ones being targeted too.)

[undeterred]

12. Beauty pageants attract certain types of young women

and they aren't likely to be feminists or have liberal views on anything. Can you imagine parading yourself in front of a bunch of judges in a swimsuit and heels at that age? I can't, I would have found it repulsive.