Perez Hilton vs. Miss California
How gossip columnist Hilton's gay-marriage question affected Miss California
Celebrity gossip blogger, Perez Hilton. (Corbis)
“Say what you will about Perez Hilton and the Miss USA pageant,” said Entertainment Weekly, “but when the two collided this weekend something went horribly right—for 59 seconds, anyway.” For that fraction of a minute, Hilton—a gossip blogger and Miss America judge—made the beauty pageant socially relevant by asking Miss California whether other states should legalize gay marriage as Vermont did. Miss California’s stumbling answer—that marriage should be between a man and a woman—might have cost her the crown. (watch Miss California answer Perez Hilton)
“Good for Miss California,” said Johnny Franks in The Chattanoogan. She was asked a loaded question by an openly gay judge, and held to her morals when it would have been so easy to “sacrifice them for the crown.” Shame on everybody who booed her—“since when do we live in a pink Nazi society that censors free speech.”
Even Perez Hilton was impressed by the honesty of Miss California, Carrie Prejean, said Luchina Fisher in ABC News, but he said she deserved to be booed because Miss USA represents everyone. “Her answer alienated millions of gay and lesbian Americans, their families, and their supporters,” he said.
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Posted by becca, Saturday, December 26, 2009, 4:04 pm Good for Miss California is right. Was she supposed to lie and go against her own beliefs? How is that alienating anyone?? Do we live in a country where anything goes and everything has to be accepted? Where is the freedom in that ? Here's one for you I totally believe it's a marriage only if it is a man and a woman. Otherwise, it's just sick and in need of help.
Posted by John, Saturday, January 2, 2010, 10:07 am What I find appalling is the moral decay of a society that would choose a homosexual man to judge a MISS America contest. Anyone with any common sense would know that his only question would be related to his perversion. I agree that people have a freewill to choose , but they cannot choose the consequences of their choice. Mankind has never been given the authority to decide what is morally right or what is morally wrong. The moral law has been established and the consequences of obeying or disobeying are determined by the lawgiver.
Posted by Padre F, Sunday, January 3, 2010, 8:44 pm Shocking! I mean, shocking that the opinions of either a gossip blogger or a candidate in a beauty contest would be considered newsworthy. I have to wonder, from a Christian standpoint I'm a priest why this is in the news, and the hundreds of thousands of children without health care, or who are going to bed hungry again tonight, or are being raised by TV because their parents have to each work two jobs to pay for rent food, isn't newsworthy, here in the richest country on earth. We should be ashamed.
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