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Gay Marriage Sinks Miss California's shot at Crown
Katie77:
I think what a lot of us are forgetting here with Miss CA....is the fact that she was forced to state her opinion on same sex marriage, if front of millions of people.
Most of us, have the opportunity to keep some of our opinions to ourselves. We can do that by steering clear of conversations about a subject. We can all sit here stating words like bigot and homophobic and racist and other derogative tags on others, when at the same time, we ourselves keep opinions, that if said out in the open, we too could be tagged with similar terms.
Are there no gays who are racist, are there not blacks who are homophobic, how many of us have laughed at a joke which is racist, are we all so bloody perfect ourselves.
Miss CA did not march in protests for Prop 8, she did not invoke anger or hatred, for all we know, she may not have even voted one way or the other.
She was an innocent victim of a sinister attempt to make a poliitical statement at a beauty pageant. Dont anyone tell me,that Perez Hilton had not researched her religious beliefs, and would have assumed the answer to the question, before he asked it.
Would he have asked a black girl about civil rights or racial discrimination?....whatever her answer, she would have upset some members of the community, somehow,somewhere, and the press would have had a field day with that.
All of us have opinions on a lot of things, but we can voice that opinion as we wish, where we wish, and if we wish... that girl did not have that same opportunity.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on April 28, 2009, 10:50:59 pm ---I think what a lot of us are forgetting here with Miss CA....is the fact that she was forced to state her opinion on same sex marriage, if front of millions of people.
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No one made her get up on a stage and try to be Miss USA. The judges ask these kinds of questions. This is not unusual, not unexpected and gay marriage is a pertinent topic. Her PR people might have educated her a bit better, but perhaps she didn't want to be educated.
Katie77:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on April 28, 2009, 11:01:14 pm ---No one made her get up on a stage and try to be Miss USA. The judges ask these kinds of questions. This is not unusual, not unexpected and gay marriage is a pertinent topic. Her PR people might have educated her a bit better, but perhaps she didn't want to be educated.
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What is it like to be so dam perfect?
injest:
--- Quote ---With such words, he suggests he finds it offensive when someone civilly expresses an opinion different than his own.
Here in brief is the case against thoughtless, knee-jerk outrage: It’s incredibly easy to call anyone you dislike a homophobe and a bigot. Heck, we use the phrases fairly liberally ourselves from time to time, but when the conversation ends at “you are a bad person,” you’re only making yourself feel better and further solidifying the impression that the differences you have are intractable.
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yep.
louisev:
Pffft. Because Pajamas Media and the evangelical right CARE SO MUCH ABOUT GAYS.
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