I have yet to find a credible answer as to why all the outrage over Miss California’s opinion on gay marriage in the Miss USA pageant this weekend. If you missed it – here is the video:
again – I get that gay marriage is a big issue nowadays with all the recent legislative and judicial activity in the area in Vermont, New York and Iowa. But come on – IT’S A FUCKING BEAUTY PAGEANT!!! Miss California is hardly in the thought leadership about the pros and cons of gay marriage. She is not the go-to pundit on Fox News and is just trying to get in line to get screwed by The Donald.
Moreover, what did she say that was so bad. Misspeakings aside, what she basically said was that we have choice but she doesn’t believe in gay marriage. And if you remember Miss Teen South Carolina you know misspeakings by beauty queens on world affairs are as common as curry in Mumbai. Ok so we don’t really have a choice outside of moving to one of the 4 gay marriage states. But it’s still her opinion. Has the debate on this issue gotten so toxic that an internet blogger is now dropping 4-letter C bombs on this know-nothing and we’re laughing? It’s not like she’s Joe the Plumber – a subversive political agent of the right from the very beginning who set out to torpedo the Obama campaign with illogical but catchy phrases. She’s just there to get a lifetime supply of Maybeline products and a tiara that “they can never take away” – and to become Donald Trump’s collateral damage. She probably doesn’t even fully understand the issues or the history behind marriage or even basic civics – you know – since her generation grew up with standardized tests given by automaton teachers who had to moodlight at Target. But I digress …
If gay marriage is going to get the kind of unassailable unretrenchable progress that it deserves, the ignorance of those that are uninvolved in the debate or “young and stupid” must be met with reasoned responses and thoughtful anecdotes, not “dumb bitch” blasts by vapid, soulless societal parasites. Or even derision by left-leaning pundits. Take the time to introduce this youngun and those like her to the arguments for gay marriage, not dismiss her outright as a Sean Hannity or a Glenn Beck. That’s the Israel-vs-Gaza approach. The people who won’t be swayed on this are evident and are wastes of our time. It’s the people who can be swayed that we need to focus on. And that included (I think) Miss California. Sadly, now that she’s been made into a anti-gay mascot we’ll have to settle for the other beauty contestants and impressionable young adults out there.
In the words of Chocolate News host David Allen Grier, “Have you people lost your damn mind?!?”
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