Is it fair that one contestant in a beauty pagent is asked such a more controversial question then everyone else? I was thinking to myself that probably none of the other contestants got asked such a hard question, or one designed to lose so many votes, regardless of the answer.
Should her views on a subject that has nothing to do with the position that shes going for (aside from asinine gay stereotypes), determine whether or not she gets it?
I have to wonder if Carrie Prejean really lost solely due to her answer. It looks like an excuse that both sides would like to promote: conservatives can claim that liberals are harassing traditionalists and liberals can claim that conservatives suffer for their intolerance.
She picked the questioner - what did she think was going to be asked by Perez Hilton?
If she wants to represent herself as being against all people having the same rights, well, I for one am glad that she was honest about it.
With the Supreme Court case coming down any minute now, we won’t need to be listening to her for a year or more in the public sphere.
Hopefully her coaches learned their lesson and can book her on a tour of churches as an “inspirational speaker” where her kind hide and listen to each other only. Probably a better career move anyway.
Like Fox News, the trademark on “Miss USA” appears to be for ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES, in this case PRESENTATION OF PAGEANTS AND CONTESTS.
That pretty much leaves em free to do whatever they think will be most entertaining.
I believe that the winner of this competition represents the U.S. in the worldwide competition. I, for one, am glad that this country won’t be represented by a bigot. It would have been nice if all the contestants had been asked this question; as it stands, we don’t know the views of the woman who actually won.
I think it’s perfectly fine that she lost the pageant on the basis of this answer, because her answer was asinine.
“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 and opposite sex marriage.” In what world does that answer make sense? In supporting the position of closing off civil marriage to homosexuals, her reasoning is that everyone gets a choice? With some meaningless U-S-A rah-rah tacked on?
“I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other.” She should have to tell that to a gay couple living in her neighborhood, to see if they appreciate that “freedom”.
Funny. While she thinks she lost on that basis, gay rights activists were upset she won second place after voicing her opinion.
I’d like some actual proof that her opinion cost her the crown. I’d think if her opinion was enough to get judges to rank her lower, they’d most likely be unwilling to give her second place, which in recent years is almost as likely to be the person ending up as the reigning Miss Whateveritis after the winner manages some piece of colossal stupidity.
Well, of course we don’t look to Miss America, or Miss USA or Miss Whatever candidates for moral and political leadership. The point isn’t what she thinks. The point is that it seem a bit unfair to boot a participant in a appearance and grooming contest (think the American Kennel Club dog show) because they voice an opinion shared by a fair portion of the public. The ultimate question isn’t her political/social opinions. It’s whether she conforms to breed conformation standards. Does she have all her teeth? Ten fingers, ten toes? Two breasts? Perky? Same approximate size and level? Does she stand up straight? Is she a good baton twirler, piano player, flower arranger?
We can put up with vacuous, even stupid, as long as the candidate is sexually attractive. Don’t care about her opinions. Why should the judges?