Miss California

Miss California Carrie Prejean was runner up to the Miss USA crown this recent pageant. Controversy around it claims that her answer to the question of judge Perez Hilton about her views on the legalization of same sex marriage may have cost her the crown. She answered "We live in a land that you can choose same sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what? In my country and in my family 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 and that's how I think it should be between a man and a woman."

If there is truth to the rumors that her answer cost her the crown, then good for it. First she is not well informed enough to know that we don't live in a land where we can choose gay marriage. She should know that amid all the recent news on Proposition 8 in California where she hails from. And secondly, how can she say "in MY country"? Is she saying that the people who are for gay marriage does not belong in this country? As Miss USA, she should be smart enough to know that saying something like that does not embody the ideals of Miss USA that represent one USA. She does not seem to have a clear grasp on the fact that gay marriage proponents are not asking any religious entity to acknowledge gay marriage but for the state to grant the same rights and privileges as straight married people have. This was after all Miss USA and not Miss Christian USA or whatever. So she should have a clear grasp on the concept of the separation of Church and State. Not smart enough.

Well she has a right to her opinion no matter how ignorant. The judges has their rights to choose whom they think will best embody Miss USA. And it is clearly not her!