The smeller’s the feller.
Just a note today in support of my previous post… and no, I did not watch the pageant. A co-worker sent me a link to the news.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517137,00.html
The allegation is that the Miss USA pageant was ’soiled’ by political controversy..
“the big story to come out of the normally politics-free telecast was Miss California’s comments regarding gay marriage.”
The question and the answer?
“When asked by judge Perez Hilton, an openly gay gossip blogger, whether she believed in gay marriage, Miss California, Carrie Prejean, said “We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite. 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 offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised.”"
What did Miss California’s answer tell us about her character? Closed mindedness? Hate? unacceptable? Un-American? Ugly? Wrong?
Where I was raised, it was a well known fact that if someone did something they knew would raise a stink, they placed the blame on someone else as soon as possible. There is a saying for that. “You smelt it, you dealt it.”
Wow, does this stink.
So, a gossip blogger, Parez Hilton, is allowed to ask a politically charged question, but the answer is the condemned item?
What was Miss California supposed to say?
‘I support gay marriage so much that I wish my parents had been gay instead of having me.’
‘I think that gay marriage is the wave of the future, except that ‘the future’ will only last one generation.’
‘I think that homosexuals should be allowed to legally redefine an existing term and contract, that affects millions of Americans and their beliefs, to satisfy whatever agenda the homosexual movement wishes to advance.’
Or perhaps the politically expedient answer:
‘Forty-five of the fifty American states already have laws or constitutional amendments banning gay marriage, and if I were to assume to become Miss America and represent them, how could I tell 90% of America that they are wrong?’
“Miss California’s answer sparked a shouting match in the lobby after the show. “It’s ugly,” said Scott Ihrig, a gay man, who attended the pageant with his partner. “I think it’s ridiculous that she got first runner-up. That is not the value of 95 percent of the people in this audience. Look around this audience and tell me how many gay men there are.”"
I guess that I am just not gay enough to watch the Miss America Pageant. But then again, if the female beauty pageat of the nation is now decided by what gay men think is attractive and good, I promise to never, ever, watch it. I guess it is not enough that these women are reduced to objects: a sex-symbol, that struts around a stage in skimpy clothes and babbles about world peace… now they must also be pro-gay. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?
…pardon me, but the hangman is hitting me in the face with that golden noose…