You've probably figured by now that the Miss USA Pageant just isn't the forum for saying anything controversial or halfway intelligent. At least, that's what Miss California, Carrie Prejean, is figuring out.
Prejean believes her comments on gay marriage probably cost her the Miss USA crown, but to her credit she's taking nothing back. She's standing by her statements, much to her credit.
During last Sunday's pageant, celebrity gossip blogger and Miss USA judge Perez Hilton, asked Prejean about her views on gay marriage. Now, keep in mind the pageant is a pure Hollywood thing, and she is representing an extremely liberal state. But here's Prejean's answer:
"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."
Whoops. Wrong audience. Not the most prudent thing to say, especially to a question posed by Hilton, who is (as the PC crowd would say) upfront about his own homosexuality. Like, he describes himself as "the gossip queen." And Hilton has since led the attack on Prejean, ripping her in his blog.
So far, Prejean is taking these attacks in stride. "I have to laugh it off, she says. "It's so funny."
Prejean came in first runner-up to Miss North Carolina, and probably didn't get much consideration for Miss Congeniality. But she scored big on some things our society used to value.
"It did cost me my crown," Prejean says. "It is a very touchy subject and [Hilton] is a homosexual, and I see where he was coming from and I see the audience would've wanted me to be more politically correct. But I was raised in a way that you can never compromise your beliefs and your opinions for anything."
Now, that's huge. Too bad there's no such thing as Miss Principled in that pageant, or anywhere else for that matter. I guess following your heart, sticking by your beliefs, or having actual convictions doesn't "sell" anymore.
Is there a problem with making sure you don't offend the other person? You'd better believe there's a problem. Playing this trend to its ultimate, what you'll have is a bunch of people who look the same, act the same, have no opinions of their own, and have no personalities of their own. Which is a good thing, I reckon, if you want an absolutely ordered (read: dead) society that will do the bidding of whoever jumps to the front of the herd.
Standing out just isn't popular. Or easy. It takes a heaping helping of guts to do this, especially when the majority is quite content to be sheep.
I like how CNN columnist Roland S. Martin put it: "The day we condemn folks for speaking honestly is the day we become a bland society."
What scares me is that maybe we're already there.
Prejean believes her comments on gay marriage probably cost her the Miss USA crown, but to her credit she's taking nothing back. She's standing by her statements, much to her credit.
During last Sunday's pageant, celebrity gossip blogger and Miss USA judge Perez Hilton, asked Prejean about her views on gay marriage. Now, keep in mind the pageant is a pure Hollywood thing, and she is representing an extremely liberal state. But here's Prejean's answer:
"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."
Whoops. Wrong audience. Not the most prudent thing to say, especially to a question posed by Hilton, who is (as the PC crowd would say) upfront about his own homosexuality. Like, he describes himself as "the gossip queen." And Hilton has since led the attack on Prejean, ripping her in his blog.
So far, Prejean is taking these attacks in stride. "I have to laugh it off, she says. "It's so funny."
Prejean came in first runner-up to Miss North Carolina, and probably didn't get much consideration for Miss Congeniality. But she scored big on some things our society used to value.
"It did cost me my crown," Prejean says. "It is a very touchy subject and [Hilton] is a homosexual, and I see where he was coming from and I see the audience would've wanted me to be more politically correct. But I was raised in a way that you can never compromise your beliefs and your opinions for anything."
Now, that's huge. Too bad there's no such thing as Miss Principled in that pageant, or anywhere else for that matter. I guess following your heart, sticking by your beliefs, or having actual convictions doesn't "sell" anymore.
Is there a problem with making sure you don't offend the other person? You'd better believe there's a problem. Playing this trend to its ultimate, what you'll have is a bunch of people who look the same, act the same, have no opinions of their own, and have no personalities of their own. Which is a good thing, I reckon, if you want an absolutely ordered (read: dead) society that will do the bidding of whoever jumps to the front of the herd.
Standing out just isn't popular. Or easy. It takes a heaping helping of guts to do this, especially when the majority is quite content to be sheep.
I like how CNN columnist Roland S. Martin put it: "The day we condemn folks for speaking honestly is the day we become a bland society."
What scares me is that maybe we're already there.
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