More on this contest flap :
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/04/21/beckel_miss_usa/
BOB BECKEL: Miss USA Flap — How About Keeping God OUT of Politics?
The furor over the anti-gay marriage comments made by Miss California, who was competing in the Miss USA contest were both unnecessary and inflammatory. It reminded me of a former gay-bashing beauty contestant, Anita Bryant. The less than brilliant Bryant traveled the country in the ’70’s spewing hatred towards gays by her hateful speech and support of anti-gay referendums.
I don’t know where this woman is now or if she is still alive but her sentiments certainly are among those felt by a minority of Americans who apparently don’t believe the Constitution of the United States provides for civil liberties for all our people. Some opponents of gay marriage love to quote the Bible as an anti-gay source.
I am a Christian, read the Bible daily, and attend church at least once a week (hard for some of you wingers to believe, isn’t it, that there are born-again Christians who happen to be liberals). I do not believe our Savior would have spoken out in favor of anti-gay referendums. “Give onto Caesar what is Caesar’s.”
How about being Good Samaritans and keeping God out of politics?
Having said that, I am appalled that the question was raised at all. Given the fact that the questioner, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, is gay makes it appear that he is injecting his own politics into what is after all just a beauty contest. It’s time to cool the rhetoric on both sides on the gay marriage issue and leave it to state legislatures and the courts which is where the debate belongs.
This judge is literally saying that she EXPECTS contestants to give politically correct answers, even if they are lies.
How disgusting. Miss California was better off losing this disgusting travesty.
They are so close in spelling they are difficult to tell apart without some further explanation.
Why don’t they use this as a STIMULUS, and make 3 crowsn..Mr. Homosexual, Miss Lesbian, and the heteorsexual gal who is Miss Straight America? Why not?
I don't actually get Jacobs' drift about the "2 ways," but I am sure someone hipper will explain that to me.
The word "implants" comes to mind...
Poor, stupid bimbo. She doesn’t recognize moral courage and integrity when she sees it.
No, Miss California gave the right answer. They just didn’t like the answer she gave.
Ms. Prejean had every right to be proud, because she stood up for her beliefs and didn’t kow-tow to some raging homosexual.
Unless, of course, you are living in a totalitarian or other type of fascist state.
It was only a “wrong” answer to the homonazis.
Funny, I always thought those interviews and Q&A were about the contestant... So in that light, she couldn't possibly give the wrong answer. Unless you want to tell her what to think and feel. As for knowing the judges, so what? Again, she is supposed to answer based on her outlook, and she did. I'm very proud she had the backbone to state what she believes. (I happen to agree with her too)
If they were even pretending to be impartial judges, they would've appreciated her candid, honest reply even if they disagreed with it. The judges failed here, miserably, not the contestant, she's beautiful, strong-willed, and would make a wonderful Miss USA.
...even if the queers don’t like her she will still get bookings from family values groups...probably more now that she’s famous for speaking her mind....I wish her well.
Carrie Prejean’s crown awaits her in heaven.................
It sounds like the beauty pageant business has been taken over by gay people.
Given that gay people make up about 2% of the population, it seems like straight people have been discriminated against here, with so many gays involved in the judging.
Of course, there was a time when people were asked about their personal beliefs, and giving the truthful answer meant being torn apart by lions. It took real courage to stand by your convictions.
We should not be surprised that we can still be punished for our beliefs. We have grown soft because for so long our nation was a “Christian nation”, or at least it was not antithetical and opposed to Christian beliefs. However, that time is long gone now.
We have gotten well into a new era, where expressing your truthful beliefs about abortion, gay marriage, extramarital sex, creation, and wanting to obey and act according to the commands of a higher being will get you ostracized, rejected, fired, and maybe even jailed or beaten.
In the name of Tolerance, we have become intolerant of those who hold firm convictions.
That’s right, she did give the wrong answer. What she should have said is this:
“Barack Obama was asked whether he supported gay marriage when he was running for President. Barack Obama said no, and I agree with Barack Obama.”
Welcome to Obama world. In Obama world leftists get to pick winners and losers.
If you do not answer the right way you are slandered and treated like dirt. You will continue to lose until you renounce your beliefs and tow the line.
The lefties are emboldened now and will continue pushing for America’s end to liberties.
So this judge is saying she should have answered based upon who was judging?
I smell Donald Trump involved in this for ratings.
Is Alicia Jacobs outing herself. Is she one of the homosexual judges? If she isnt a homosexual she is certainly a dyed in the wool liberal, and a woman who proposes other women lie to win contests.She is insulted that the woman seemed proud to give a conservative answer.
What she is doing here is encouraging a courageous heterosexual woman to lie to win a contest.
What a farce this has become. Close the whole thing down
Homosexuals running a beauty contest , what a joke.