Carrie Prejean's gay marriage outburst lifts Republicans

Miss California is the new, sexy pin-up of the family values Republican Right after her televised implosion on Miss USA

FIRST POSTED APRIL 27, 2009

Carrie Prejean, 21, blonde and polished to a golden California shine, is knocking Sarah Palin off her perch as pin-up girl for the family-values Republican Right. She is Miss California, the beauty queen who blew her chances for the crown in the Miss USA contest by blurting out a sincere answer to one of those this-proves-the-girls-have-brains-too questions that are de rigeur these days.

Did she support gay marriage? No, she did not. The trouble is that the question came from Perez Hilton, a contest judge who is a gay man famed for scoops on his Hollywood gossip website, and it was loaded.

"We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite," Prejean began in promising dumb-blonde style, since there are in fact just three states out of 50 where gay marriage is legal. But she went on: "And you know what, I think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offence to anyone, but that's how I was raised."

Hilton, squealing with delighted indignation, did indeed take offence. Prejean, who had been the hot tip for the title, was out. Hilton hurried back to his blog to post a video recording of himself declaring: "Miss California lost because she is a dumb bitch."

All this might have been passed off as no more than a masterpiece of camp theatre. What could be camper than a bitch-fest between a flamboyantly gay publicity seeker who calls himself "the queen of gossip" and a straight California Girl, at a beauty contest owned and organised by Donald Trump?

But then God and politics came into it, and this is America. Within the 24-hour news cycle, Prejean was a media star carrying the burden of the national conscience for the Right.

Miss California’s plight was looking a whole lot sexier than Sarah Palin’s

Prejean hit the television talk-show circuit with the savvy of a girl born to spot an opportunity, and all of a sudden Palin was out of the headlines. Here was a blonde beauty queen facing martyrdom for her Christian faith in heterosexual union, and all Palin could do was issue press releases claiming that she was being "victimised" by the 11th complaint of an ethical violation filed against her.

Prejean's plight was looking a whole lot sexier. The vivid imagery was quickly established by Roland Martin, a conservative black columnist who was invited to pontificate on CNN. He said that Prejean "has been savagely attacked by those who oppose

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Prejean or Pre genes? She has the mind of green slime. She'll do real good in her Baa'ble Studies if she goes back.

Posted by TomNightingale at 10:38am on April 29, 2009

It's so good to see the easygoing live and let live liberals frothing at the mouth over a woman who has the temerity to not agree with them.

Posted by Gary O'Brien at 12:27pm on April 29, 2009

Gary O'Brien, you seem to have misunderstood just about everything in this story. The only ones frothing at the mouth, as usual, are the rightwingnuts. Your response is a good illustration of how difficult right wingers find it to think logically, let alone do compassion and tolerance. Still, if it's a choice between Palin and Pregenes, while being comparable intellectually [ie. stoopid], at least Miss California doesn't, as far as I know, shoot wolves from helicopters for sport. If this is all the GOP has going for it, it really is in terminal decline and running out of brain cells. No wonder we hear right wingers whining at every opportunity, they've been out-classed, out-flanked and revealed as spiteful, vituperative no-hopers. By the way, I'm not gay, I'm a grandfather, I'm just tolerant of difference, although I could draw the line at neo-fascists.

Posted by Peter Simmons at 3:45pm on April 29, 2009

She's just as narrow-minded as Joe the "Toilet Plunger" ... and not that much better looking. In the past people like them opposed: - The Abolition of Slavery - The Women Right to Vote - The Interracial Marriage. We know today with an undeniable certitude, that all these oppositions from narrow-minded people, were utterly wrong. They are all duly accepted TODAY as part of our Normal Every Day Life. Same-Sex Secular-Civil Marriage will go the same route. Strongly opposed at first, than later accepted as a "No Big Deal" by all, to finally become part of our Normal Way of Every Day Life. We will even ask ourselves ... "Why was it even opposed to, in the first place? ... How ridiculous the opposition from narrow-minded Conservatives truly was!!"

Posted by librophile at 5:52pm on April 29, 2009

All these other contributors are spewing left wing nonsense. The majority of Californians voted against gay marriage, its called democracy. The left would love to take this freedom away from us because we disagree with them and their hedonistic ways.

Posted by Nicholas Folkes at 12:17pm on April 30, 2009

Come on, all you Leftwingers, such dribble because a beautiful young woman stood up publically for what she believes in...isn't that the American way? Since you seem not able to speak intelligently, join the current Press Secretary and he who can't speak without a idiot box teleprompter...oops, that's right...you are part of that entourage. Well, now we know why you write as you do.

Posted by Joyce Kauders at 5:53pm on April 30, 2009