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| Thursday, April 23, 2009 |
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Miss California Sets Her Eyes on the Real Prize
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Miss California Sets Her Eyes on the Real Prize
At the Miss USA pageant, Carrie Prejean may have lost the crown but she won plenty of respect. Miss California, who was the odds-on favorite to capture this year's title, faced her biggest test this past weekend--answering a question from the judges about same-sex "marriage." To Fox News, the first runner-up said yesterday, "Out of all the topics I studied up on, I dreaded that one... If I had any other question, I know I would have won," she said.
Perez Hilton, an open homosexual who served as a pageant judge, pressed Prejean, asking if every state should legalize homosexual marriage. After a brief pause, Miss California responded in the same way that more than four million of her state's voters did during last November's election. "...I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody there, but that's how I was raised and that's how I think it should be..."
After the contest, in which Prejean finished second, Hilton showed his "tolerance" by saying (in the few comments fit to print) that had Miss California won, "I would have gone up on stage... and snatched the tiara off her head..." Later, he took another swipe saying, "Miss USA should represent everyone. Her answer alienated millions of gay and lesbian[s]..." As Miss USA, Carrie would have represented mainstream Americans (including Californians) who have voted to ban counterfeit marriage in every state where the question has been put to the people.
Even though Carrie believes her answer "did cost me my crown," she told Access Hollywood, "I wouldn't have had it any other way... I see the audience would've wanted me to be more politically correct. But I was raised... that you can never compromise your beliefs and opinions for anything."
For the rest of us who fight this demonization every day, it's a different venue but the same old liberal strategy: intimidate everyday Americans into silence. What we witnessed on the Miss USA stage (the Left can speak; conservatives can't,) is the same mentality that drives the debate over "hate crimes," ENDA, and marriage. People are entitled to their opinion only if it's shared by the radical Left. As we speak, Congress is planning a mark-up on the first "hate crimes" bill of the new session, H.R. 1913, which would make it very costly for anyone to speak the truth about homosexuality in public or in the pulpit. Contact your representatives today and urge them to join the majority who believe in free speech for all.
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