Miss California to Campaign Against Gay Marriage

[SuperTrouper]

NEW YORK – The reigning Miss California has gone to Washington to help launch a campaign opposing same-sex marriage.

Carrie Prejean told NBC's "Today" show Thursday that she'll be working with the National Organization for Marriage to "protect traditional marriages."

The 21-year-old says that marriage is "something that is very dear to my heart" and she's in Washington to help save it.

She says many people have thanked her for standing up for traditional marriage.

Prejean was named the first runner-up to Miss North Carolina in the Miss USA pageant April 19. Her response to celebrity blogger Perez Hilton's question about legalizing same-sex marriage may have cost her the title

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Matt Lauer mentioned to her that now, as the darling of the Conservatives, she has been compared to Sarah Palin. He asked her what she thought about the comparison and Miss Prejean told him that "the only thing we have in common is that we are beauty queens and I have no plans to run for political office in a long, long time"





http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090430/ap_on_re_us/us_gay_marriage_miss_california_2

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Rise to Fame Fail

:rofl:

[denem]

2. Some Rise to Fame, some Rise to Fail,

and others have failure thrust upon them.

[GoCubsGo]

3. And some...

..find ways to stretch out their 15 minutes of it as long as they can. Go away Carrie. Please. Your 15 minutes are over.

[saltpoint]

4. So this woman is going to fly the length of the continent to battle for

traditional marriage.

I hope she somehow gets an airplane seat next to Gore Vidal.

That would be an illuminating flight for Ms. Prejean.

[endarkenment]

5. Can one imagine a campaign to ban 'opposite marriage'?

WTF is wrong with these people?

[Historic NY]

6. What's her stand on opposite divorce?

[Rebubula]

7. I will never understand...

....how ANYONE could muster up the argument that allowing people who love each other (who happen to be the same gender) to get married THREATENS their own marriage!?!??!

These people make me laugh at them. They do not even realize how stupid they are acting.

[BOSSHOG]

8. SO I guess NOM will push hard to make divorce illegal

Since they are FOR MARRIAGE !!! And conservatives still can't figure out why rational Americans, the real patriots who actually care for our country think they are fucking insane.

[JackBeck]

39. I'm sure this will come as no surprise to you

But the President of NOM, Maggie Gallagher, was once a single mother, who had a few of her children out of wedlock.

[mrs_p]

9. but what will she do for opposite marriage?

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[CoffeeCat]

10. Did you see her on the Today show?

We have nothing to fear. In fact, she is a horrendous, pathetic spokesperson.

She is about as sharp as a sack of wet mice, and was totally unable to articulate
one salient point.

She kept looking down at notes!!! They only have her a line or two, and still, she
couldn't pull it off.

She kept repeating, "I'm just protecting marriage". She must have said it twenty times.

That sentence doesn't even make sense. Millions of Americans were looking at their
television screens, wondering why this nimrod feels that she needs to protect something
that isn't threatened.

Don't worry folks...she's pitiful. She makes Palin look like a Rhodes Scholar.

[Thrill]

11. People like that piss me off

I'm not gay. But why do you care what people do? And what an arrogant person, calling herself a beauty queen.

[firedupdem]

12. Silly girl....she's being used for something she probably knows

nothing about. Idiot.

[BonnieJW]

13. This kid is being railroaded.

Think back to when you were 21. Would you want movies of that time shown anywhere? 21-year-olds are still children and this silly girl is going to regret becoming a tool for the right wingnuts. She will be dismissed and discounted for the rest of her short period of fame and will be relegated to the bottom of the dizzy blonde pile along with Joe the Plumber.

[Bluenorthwest]

21. When I was 21

I was an active in several self chosen areas, from fighting racism and homophobia to ending aparthied, to participating in clinic defenses. I was already accomplished in my field, well versed in my interests, willing and able to speak my part as needed.
My life at 21 was and is an open book. I'm proud of that time. I did good stuff. To claim that it is her age and not her mind that is the issue here is an insult to everyone who is young, and to those of use who were both young and were not like that idiot. Sorry. But it is not her age. All the contestants are that young. Did they all display intolerance wrapped in ignorance and topped off my a lack of vocabulary power? No, they did not.
Some folks at 21 are heros, and that is just how it is. Some are also fully formed fools at 21.

[asdjrocky]

25. Well said.

[Bluenorthwest]

27. Bob Dylan's first album

was recorded when he was 21. The list goes on and on.

[asdjrocky]

30. And Tangled Up In Blue is still my favorite all time song. nt

[TankLV]

42. When I was 21 I was very active and PROUD of what I did.

only REPUKES are idiots at 21 - and most aren't even ready at 41 or 51 or 61, either...

[secondwind]

14. didn't she say in the contest that she respected the opinions of others who believe

in gay marriage?

Typical hypocritical Republican moran.

[Deep13]

15. Methinks Miss CA doth protest too much. nt

[jberryhill]

16. I can just see her in the next NOM commercial

"I am a beauty pageant contestant, forced to answer pointed questions by a b-list celebrity."

[QC]

18. LOL! n/t

[LiberalFighter]

17. This girl will have little impact considering the makeup of Americans improves each day

as more of them see it is not threatening, that everyone should be treated fairly, and the arguments provided by the other side is idiotic.

[Bluenorthwest]

26. The position she states is the same as Gov Kaine's

So I guess the DNC Chairman is 'the other side'. He is to me.

[LiberalFighter]

32. That may be so but he is nearing the edge of society that is disappearing by dying.

[LiberalFighter]

19. I wonder how many Miss American contestants have been in positions of importance

and made a difference? Probably few.

Even for those that have won the pageant have been few as being well known. The only one that comes to mind for me is Bess Myerson. And that was ages ago.

[Bluenorthwest]

23. Anita Bryant springs to mind

for some reason.

[Dr.Phool]

29. Yeah, that did so much for Anita Bryant's career.

But, there's more opportunities now. Like, she could replace that old hag, Gretchen Carlson on Faux.

[Teaser]

20. That's torn it. Someone's got some dirt on this chick.

let's see it.

[msongs]

22. so will she start stoning adulterers (aka people who get divorces)? nt

[TheCoxwain]

24. So when is she signing the contract for starring in Lesbian porn?

[ecstatic]

28. She's here to "protect marriage." That's all she's "here to do"

OK... just saw the clip on MSNBC and I really am wondering :wtf:

Is she serious? Is she really going to go down this road? I thought her response in the pageant may have been a nervous mistake or something because she was very inarticulate--but now she has shown without a doubt that she truly is a bigot with a lot of time on her hands. She has pretty much limited her future to Fox News! Who the hell is advising this woman?

[Cha]

31. Piss off carrie. Why don't you

go campaign against Divorce you ignorant slut?

Sorry, if that's not allowed.

[polichick]

33. To "protect traditional marriages" FROM WHAT???

[SemiCharmedQuark]

35. We must protect opposite marriage!

[Egnever]

43. Exposure

No one wants to admit that till death do us part really means till I am sick of you.

[Hellataz]

34. Perez Called for her to give back her Miss Ca. crown and I agree, she doesn't represent my state.

I'm not sure who to write to, since the the Miss California organizations site looks like a 12 year old made it and has no contact info also no update showing Prejean as the current title holder, however if there is a site we can find, we should write to it and demand they strip her of the miss California crown. She is engaging is activity unbecoming of a pageant queen and does not represent her state.

[cwcwmack]

37. yup California...

went for Obama by 3.2 MILLION votes... but went for Prop. 8 by 600,000 votes.

Logic suggest that nearly 4 MILLION California DEMS flipped on GAY MARRIAGE...

So actually she DOES represent her state.



this is a commentary on the people of California... dumb as a bag of rocks.

My libertarian blood just boils at the thought of these people with their HOPE/CHANGE bumper stickers and their BUSH lied People died and their 9-11 "Loose Change" DVD's...

But they won't let a guy marry his partner of like 20 years??? Or let a woman visit her dying partner of 40 years in a hospital...

Hypocrite pieces of shit. They're content in their little mini-van, clean washed driveway, tip the gardener world... HOPE! CHANGE! Gay Marriage, ewwwwwww...

[joeprogressive]

50. I don't agree, I think many moderate republicans in California

voted for Obama but could not support gay marriage. That combined with the African American population that voted prop 8 and it is easy to see how it passed.

[JimWis]

36. My whole life I have hated people who have to stick their oar in -

try to impose their belief's on someone else. No matter what the subject. How the hell does gay marriage threaten "traditional marriage". Or how does it threaten anything for that matter. Or in other words - what's it any skin off her ass?

[Orsino]

38. Wel, she's got the eternal-victim mentality cold.

I think she's ready.

[windbreeze]

40. Seems to me, she should have to turn in the tiara...and title..IF she's

going to make a big production out of this issue...She is supposed to represent the people of California...ALL of them...wb

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[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

51. Except you didn't need to use "bitch" in such an offensive way

[Egnever]

44. I really dont understand the right wings penchant for picking Idiots to represent them

bush couldn't string a coherent sentence together. Sarah and also. Joe the idiot welfare recipient defender of the rich, and now this dumb ass.

Obama said it best. They celebrate ignorance. It's appalling.

[ShadowLiberal]

45. Seriously, aren't there rules against advocating controversial political positions as Miss whatever?

I mean seriously, you think the people who organize Miss America contests, or Miss contests want their winner to go around strongly advocating positions on highly controversial political issues all over the place in public? It's one thing if you're asked the question in the contest, it's another thing to do TV ads for political groups.

I mean really, there was controversy about Miss New Jersey a few years ago when some pictures of her at a party surfaced on the Internet that almost lost her the crown. The only reason it didn't was because rules like that technically weren't written into her contract, but would be for future Miss New Jerseys. The pictures weren't even pornographic or anything, just her doing some silly poses while drunk probably.

[DefenseLawyer]

46. Seems to me she is just jumping on the gravy train

She sees an opportunity to make a few bucks before she has to go back to the auto show and/or the pole. More power to her. It's not like having a dimwit as there spokeswoman is going to help them win anybody over.

[last_texas_dem]

47. Way to prioritize, Carrie

With all the important issues out there that you could be using your fifteen minutes of fame to bring attention to, you're worried about the oh-so-endangered institution of "opposite marriage."

What a waste....

Then again, I'm not sure anyone would take you seriously if you were speaking out about something that mattered, so I guess it's better you're wasting your time on something irrelevant.

[AtomicKitten]

48. I don't understand why people would go out of their way to limit the rights of others.

What kind of person does that? We have traditionally expanded freedom in this country, yet some choose to stand in the way of progress.

[Tabasco_Dave]

49. Someone needs to give her a pie

just like the one this beauty queen got http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS91gT3XT_A

[TankLV]

52. They're gonna have to change that "2M4M" site name, then...

too bad...

[Honeycombe8]

53. Say "thanks" to that judge who made Prejean famous by having a caliptic fit ....

calling her names and such repeatedly, on video.

He looked silly. She got famous.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

54. Beauty Pageant Contestants. Ugh. Could anything be more trivial?

She wears makeup and a bathing suit well. Yep, that's a real recommendation for a professorship on social issues.

:eyes: