Hey, everybody. It’s been awhile since I’ve posted, but before I get to my newest topic, I want to say that I had a great Prom and Day of Silence. It was awesome to see all my friends wearing their white knots during both days. A lot of people in the community asked about them, so I think it went pretty well.
Now, to the topic that’s been bugging me for the past couple of weeks. Hopefully by the time I post this, it’s irrelevant (I know it sounds horrible, but thank God for swine flu wiping out this annoying headline).
Miss California made huge waves during the Miss USA pageant when judge Perez Hilton asked her if the United States should follow in the path of Iowa and Vermont, who just ruled same-sex marriages valid. When the beauty queen Carrie Prejean answered that she believed marriage was for a man and women only, all Hell broke loose. Perez and fellow judge journalist and former Miss Nevada Alicia Jacobs, as well as other contestants and people affiliated with the pageant, spoke out against her (Perez later recanted his attack on her), and it was all over the news. Suddenly we heard how her church taught homosexuality was centered on pedophilia and how Alabama legislators passed a proclamation praising her answer.
I just have to say, “What the heck?” Why are we blowing this up to be such a huge deal? It’s not like our government is going to base its decisions on the answers of teen beauty queens. I do entirely disagree with Prejean, but I wasn’t offended by her answer. It’s the same thing I hear every day from other bigoted people, so I wasn’t shocked, but I did admire the risk she took with her answer. She gave her honest opinion, very bravely, to a room full of openly gay men and women. I don’t condone what she said, but I condone her saying it.
What did shock me was the lack of professionalism from the judges. Perez did release an angry rant calling her a “dumb bitch,” but he later recanted his statements. I thought that was big of him. However, when I read the statements of fellow judge Alicia Jacobs, it struck me how childishly she handled the situation. Not only did she reveal that she and the other judges made their choice of not giving her the crown (how dare she reveal the other judges’ opinions or discuss what happened at the judging table) but she was “tweeting” on Twitter the whole time. Um, idiot, do your job!
What if Miss Cali had stated she for gay marriage, then won the crown? Several reliable reports show that she has worked with right-wing and “marriage protection” groups over the years. If she’d said what the judges wanted to hear, she could have easily won the crown, but then her anti-gay background would come out, shaming her even further. How embarrassing would that be for the pageant?
I just wish everyone would drop it and move on. It’s done. Miss California’s answer may have been ill-advised and against current social standards (especially in the pageant community), but it was her response. Her answer should have lost her the crown; not because of what she said, but how she said it (she stumbled slightly and kept trying to find common, more neutral ground when she just should have been quiet).
I’m not worried about what one beauty queen has to say. I’m more worried about our nation’s Rresident, who is also heavily supported by the LGBT community, who has always said he believes that marriage should be between a man and women. Why isn’t anyone jumping down his throat? Miss California isn’t running this country; he is. Obama is a great advocate for the gay community, but he should be under more fire than some runner-up in a mediocre popularity contest. What about the state legislators in Alabama, who wasted their session time to pass a resolution praising someone who represented another state? Don’t they have anything more important to do?
Okay, that’s it. I’m just sick of this topic. I know it’s hypocritical to bring it up when I speak out against so much, but I just had to say that. Thank you, Miss California, for speaking your mind like a true American and showing us that there is still need for ending the ignorance of homophobia in American youth.
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