They say that no one remembers second place, but this year’s recently concluded Miss USA Pageant may prove that this isn’t always true. In fact, some articles about the event, such as this one, don’t mention the winner at all. Instead, the focus is on runner-up Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean. At issue is her answer to a question posed by “Perez Hilton,” a pseudonym used by homosexual gossip monger and publicity hound Mario Armando Lavandeira. Injecting politics on steroids into the pageant, Hilton asked Prejean about whether or not other U.S. states should follow Vermont’s lead and legalize same-sex "marriage." And given that we’re discussing this, you can imagine what her answer was.
Understandably, Prejean seemed nervous fielding the question and offered a very lukewarm response, saying:
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To paraphrase the great Mark Steyn filling in for Rush today: "Having a gay man like Perez Hilton judge a beauty contest like this is akin to Ray Charles being asked to referee the Super Bowl." And therein lies half the problem..
Posted by: Brother John | April 23, 2009 at 05:54 PM
Selwyn makes a brilliant point in his articulation of the current buzzword "tolerance". If you glossed over it and are not sure why I find this so profound, go back and read the article again.
It has been the "tolerance" of Leftist and destructive ideologies by those of us on the Right that have led us to the point where sodomites comprise the judging panel of attractive women? These men forsake their natural instinct to fawn after and desire to mate with the most physically attractive of human specimens and instead lust to insert their most private and sensitive member into the anus of one of their same sex.
What is wrong with this picture?
Instead, it is the tolerant among us that are having our sensibilites assaulted by a small minority of perverts and deviants that demand our acceptance of their behavior; which we preternaturally and instinctively know is abhorrant.
Perhaps, to win this battle, we the tolerant might consider becoming as intolerant as those who demand our tolerance but demonstrate none of what they portray to us as tolerance by their own definition.
Did you ever think that ancients of all religions came out so strongly against homosexual behavior? Might there be a very good reason that the greater society would desire to keep those that espouse such proclivities to its margins so that we have it within us so as to "tolerate" them?
Posted by: Philip France | April 23, 2009 at 10:39 PM
It seems that some people never learn from history. They keep trying the ideas that sound good,are well intentioned, or just flat out lead to destruction "oh THIS time it'll work, it'll be fine."
Publicly embraced homosexuality has been the downfall of every civilization thats done it. All it does is produce douches like perez hilton. Decadent, antagonistic, pimples of society. The perfect example of what a homosexuality society will be is right in our own backyard. San Francisco. Used to be a great city. Now its garbage. This is the country's future if we don't change. Sadly morals are like a financial market. There are up times and then downturns that force a painful correction.
Posted by: Dan | April 24, 2009 at 08:21 AM
This whole affair is nothing but a tempest in a teapot. This young lady has the right to express her opinions, even if her opposition to gay marriage and probably homosexuality won't stop any one from being gay. I couldn't care less whether she was the winner or not. Or whether Perez Hilton was one of the judges.And I couldn't care less whether he's gay or not.That's his business,not mine.
The REAL issue is whether we are going to deny homosexuals civil rights or not,and persecute them. This must never happen. AS long as homosexuals mind their own business,and harm no one else, the government has absolutely no business prying into their bedrooms,nor of any other American citizen.
All this talk about homosexuality destroying great civilizations is nothing but the sheerest poppycock. Allowing homosexuals to marry is not even remotely as bad as denying them civil rights and persecuting them.
Do we want to be like Iran,Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan and execute homosexuals? In a worst case scenario,this COULD happen in America,and I would not want to live here under a government like this.Because if homosexuals are persecuted, any one else can be who displeases the government.
Posted by: Robert Berger | April 24, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Robert,
Although you don't use the word "Christian" anywhere, it is pretty obvious that it is Christian beliefs we're discussing here and you seem to believe our goal is to force everyone to do it our way. You have fallen victim to a misconception about Christians. As long as there are true Christians who believe in the sanctity of life, this will NEVER happen in America. Mainstream Christianity believes practicing homosexuality is not pleasing to God but that doesn't mean we think those who choose to do so are not fit to live, or that they should be persecuted. Good grief! People WAY overreact to the right of Christians to believe that giving in to homosexual desires is sin. I, and many others, would die to protect what we have in America. Life and freedom being the most precious of them all. To believe Americans, especially Christian Americans, would let their country get to the point of executing anyone who doesn't see it their way is to not have any clue about what Christianity is really all about. To put it simply, it is a battle for the minds and hearts of men. There is a reason Jesus is referred to as the Word. If people can't be won over with words and witness, then that is their choice to make. We will not force them, nor are we supposed to. Christ never said go kill, jail, or persecute anyone who doesn't agree with me. Anyone who does do this is not living by Christ taught principles and their priorities are mixed up. People who have let themselves believe Christians are hatemongers have been deceived and shame on them for not digging for the truth themselves. Mark my words, Robert, if our government ever gets to that point you described, it will not be Christians, true followers of the Word, who brought it there.
Posted by: Janice | April 24, 2009 at 01:58 PM
Right on, Janice!
Another failure in Robert's understanding is his assertion that homosexuals are denied civil rights. Robert, have you lost your mind? Name one civil right that homosexuals are being denied?
Now, you might say that the right to marriage is a civil right; here is what is wrong with that position:
Every adult, regardless of sexual identity has the right to marriage. A homosexual man can marry a woman and a homosexual woman can marry a man. Where is the civil rights denial? The answer is simple: there is none.
Sodomites and homosexual women want to marry each other. Here is the problem: For the greater whole of civil society to permit and accept this contradicts the continuation of civil society. A homosexual union has ZERO potential toward the proliferation of civil society. In fact, it has no potential toward the proliferation of even UNcivil society.
This series of comments began with the outrage over a sodomite who somehow and unexplicably became a judge of a beauty pageant wherein the contestants were women. How does this happen? That is a rhetorical question.
Robert should ponder the outrageous comments by this sodomite if he wonders what the harm is in accepting this vulgar behavior as equivalent to one eligible for marriage.
Posted by: Philip France | April 24, 2009 at 10:10 PM
If you watched, Ms. California was persecuted for her beliefs; Peres was not. What kind of persecuted people (homosexuals) are even asked to judge beauty pageants on national television with other famous people? I have not seen any historical documents of blacks judging a Ms. USA contest in the 1960s and they were persecuted.
I think gays have the right to be gay, but I don't have to think it is normal. When you pass a bill like proposition 8 in California you are not establishing rights for gays; you are forcing everyone to call it "normal". Little kids are taught that this is another way to live by the education system, because the now it's the law and the fabric of natural life is altered.
The US won't become Iran. US residents don't care if people are gay, but they do care about people telling them that being gay is normal or forcing the belief on their children when they are young and trying to understand the natural definitions God created.
No gays are actually special, especially in urban environments. They can run around naked and sometimes even act out sexually, but if a regular guy did that it is jail. Homosexuality is not fully responsible for society's downfall, but it is a sign of a society in downfall. History has shown that to be true many times.
Posted by: Andrew - PDX | April 25, 2009 at 12:56 AM
Phil,apparently you can't read. I did not say that homosexuals are being denied rights. What I meant to say is that proposition 8 could be just the tip of the iceberg in the slippery slope to taking their rights away and persecuting them.
And just remember; in the past, gays WERE terribly discriminated against,and they lived their lives in terror of being found out.
They could lose their jobs, they could be fired from teaching jobs for being gay,and were subject to blackmail. Let's face it; there is a widespread ignorant hostility among conservatives to homosexuals,and the myth of a gay"agenda",which is nothing but hope for tolerance nad freedom from discrimination and persecution.
The notion that there is some sinister gay conspiracy to molest children and turn them into homosexuals,and that the are out to recruit kids in school is beyond ludicrous. Conservatives can speak out against homosexuality until they're blue in the face,but it's not going to go away. Why not learn to just live and let live?
Posted by: Robert Berger | April 25, 2009 at 09:53 AM
Robert,
Everything you say is imagined. Poor homosexuals have much, much more to fear from AIDS and all other hosts of hideous diseases and infections than an occasional beat down from some bored college kids.
Although I don't label myself with names, it's safe to say im about as far right as you can get and I never have or never will bring violence on someone for their lifestyle. I live a life guided by christian principles. Again, I think your imagining all your conservative boogeymen. As far as homosexuals not pressing their culture on us. Do you remember in 93 I think when the homo crowd laid siege to the family rights convention, hosted in a church, where they surrounded the church and began screaming "give us your children"? Although that is not the norm for homosexuals, you see this type of behavior much more from the sodomites from...well about any other sector of society!
Shaun
UCA
High master of the underground far right wing extremists cult
Posted by: Shaun | April 25, 2009 at 11:29 AM
"proposition 8 could be just the tip of the iceberg in the slippery slope to taking their rights away and persecuting them." If I may borrow one of your phrases, that's "sheer poppycock". All proposition 8 does is define marriage. Proposition 8 is not the problem here. There is nothing to prevent the gay community from seeking better rights for committed partnerships, civil unions, or whatever you want to call them. If they are truly so concerned about certain rights, why the big push to redefine the word marriage? The answer is that they are not content to do what you are saying Christians should do. Live and let live. They want to take something sacred to Christians and mess with it. I have no problem with gay people having the same "legal rights" as married people, but just don't call it marriage. It's not. That's all proposition 8 does. Keeps marriage defined properly. Let them find their own noun for their relationships.
Posted by: Janice | April 26, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Robert's words:
"The notion that there is some sinister gay conspiracy to molest children and turn them into homosexuals,and that the are out to recruit kids in school is beyond ludicrous."
Look up the tragic and horrifying story of Jeffrey Curley and get back to me. Before you do, read "After the Ball" by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen. If you want to be truly balanced by opposing opinion, read "The Homosexual Agenda" by Alan Sears and Craig Osteen.
Until you have, Robert, as I have; your opinions on this subject are woefully misinformed.
Posted by: Philip France | April 27, 2009 at 12:11 AM