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Bigotry Apparently Qualifies You To Be A Presenter At The Dove Awards

carrie-prejeanCarrie Prejean, the runner-up at Donald Trump’s Miss USA beauty pageant the other night, was added to the presenter roster for tonight’s Dove Awards, which celebrate the best and the brightest of the Christian music industry. What would qualify her to hand out an award tonight? Well, she did go to a Christian college. And she volunteers with the Special Olympics! Oh yeah, she also stammered through an anti-gay marriage rant during the Q & A portion of Sunday night’s competition, and since she wasn’t awarded the crown on the spot after her answer the right wants to hold her up as an example of anti-Christian bigotry. Even though she seriously used the phrase “opposite marriage” to talk about her preferred sort of nuptial pairings.





I know Miss USA isn’t about anything like “talent” or “IQ scores” or “being able to walk and chew gum at the same time,” but don’t beauty pageant contestants go through some sort of public-speaking training? Anyway, here’s the obligatory “no, really, she’s important” statement from a Dove Awards mucky-muck:

“She apparently answered in a particular way as a person of faith,” says Brad Siegel, vice chairman of Gospel Music Channel. “For the show, having a person of faith who has gone as far as she went in the Miss USA pageant who has high celebrity and who is a big fan of Christian music is a great reason to have her be a presenter.”



“High celebrity”–for now, anyway. (Talk to Chris Sligh–also appearing on tonight’s telecast–about how fleeting that can be!) And you know what makes this even worse? It gives the ever-awful Perez Hilton yet another reason to get all self-righteous about how he believes in “equality” and engage in always-effective Twitter activism* to prove his point, even though his rise to fame was pretty much the result of his practicing barely literate misogyny (and bad MS Paint skills) day in and day out for years and years. Yay, America! Please shoot me.


Miss California Carrie Prejean scheduled for Dove Awards [The Tennessean]
[Pic via Miss California USA]

* Can we call it “twativism”? Please?

 
By Maura at 2:00 PM on Thu Apr 23 2009
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  • Lucas Jensen
    Update: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/30/miss.californi...

    I'd say that's a big vote for bigot.
  • ghostyhead
    @allyzay: Divorce FTW!

    Also: Perez Hilton still sucks.
  • allyzay
    @Rheinhold Squeegee: ahaha wait what a wonderful bit of logic you have discovered, if you don't like bigotry then you are bigoted against bigots! i don't think i've heard that since, like, 9th grade from a serious person!

    also everyone opposite marriage = divorce just fyi
  • Sparrow
    Certainly, Miss Cali's answer on stage was phrased awkwardly, and I have no problem with the judges giving her a low score based on how she babbled out her answer. To be fair, though, she's been much more eloquent during her interviews after the fact, and in these interviews she does come off as charming and intelligent (as far as pageant contestants go).

    But yes, Perez Hilton sucks.
  • @Maura: God, you troll-pummel like a pro. I guess cause it is your job.

    Anyway, I have to disagree with you and 2ironic4u. As it stands, her statement is pure word soup. "Well I think its great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage..." Excuse me ma'am, I think you left out a few iterations of "such as." How is that an answer to the question about what the rest of the states should do? Is she telling gays to move to VT? That still doesn't answer the question.
  • sicksteanein
    I'd saddleback her.
  • dsven
    Talk about a tempest in a teacup. Look, I'm Canadian, most of us, including myself, support gay marriage, as in I really could care less what two consenting adults do with their lives.

    That being said, I don't expect everybody to agree with my opinion. One can be "against" gay marriage and still be respectful about it, which I think she way (but articulate about it, that's another story).

    Free speech works both ways unfortunately.
  • @Sparrow: sure, i get where you're going. i took your bringing obama into the discussion, since he wasn't mentioned in the post at all, as an attempt to erect a straw man and obfuscate the point of my post, which is that i think it's kind of noxious for the gospel music channel and the dove awards to ride the coattails of this woman's 15 minutes in an attempt to get more press for their undercovered-by-mainstream-press awards ceremony (which, fwiw, has been covered on this site in the past and will be wrapped up tomorrow) for a lot of reasons, from my disagreement with her to the pretty much undeniable twin facts that her statement sunday night was both divisive and pretty much incoherent. i know she'll have the aid of a teleprompter this evening but come on.

    @ rheinhold whatever: butterscotch? richard burton? uh, yeah, sure dude.

    anyway, can we all just agree that perez hilton sucks?
  • Sparrow
    @Maura - no trap. Like I said, if you think Obama is a bigot, congrats for being consistent. I mean that. But you can't tell me that there aren't people who are damning Miss California with the b-word, yet who conveniently ignore Obama's *same exact position* on this issue, and who wouldn't dream of calling HIM a bigot for it. I know that there were pro-gay supporters who were disappointed when Obama said that marriage is between a man and a woman, and good for them. But having outrage over Miss Cali, who has no power whatsoever, while giving the most powerful man in the world a free pass simply because he's a liberal and she's a conservative, and not holding him to the same (if not HIGHER) standards, is absolutely hypocrisy.
  • Rheinhold Squeegee
    @Maura:

    Which, by definition, makes you a bigot as well. Last I checked, bigotry wasn't illegal in this country. Violating someone's civil rights or the additional rights of a protected class is, and she did neither. Same Puritan BS, just dipped in chocolate this time; or more accurately, butterscotch.

    Yes, this heretic has committed thought crime and must be re-educated immediately. Quick, somebody dig up Richard Burton and prep Room 101!
  • Lucas Jensen
    @RobMurphy: My home state! Yeah! Alabama, Alabama, we will 'ere be true to thee!

    Ugh.
  • @Sparrow: i think that anyone who doesn't believe gay marriage should be legal is a bigot, yes. nice try at "trapping" me, though!
  • Sparrow
    Miss California has the same opinions on this issue that Barack Obama does. Is Obama a bigot? If you say yes, than congrats for at least being consistent. If you say no, then you're clearly a hypocrite on this issue.
  • @2ironic4u: no, there absolutely is. her response came off more as the latter to me, though. (i haven't seen her tour of all the conservative media outlets out there yet.)
  • @2ironic4u: Good point.
  • 2ironic4u
    @Maura: Makes sense. I just personally feel there is a difference between saying "Marriage should be legally restricted to be between a man and a woman" and "I personally believe marriage should be between a man and woman but I will welcome anybody to marry anybody as that is what our country was founded on."
  • Someone should marry her, knock her up, and leave her.
  • @2ironic4u: the transcript:

    “Well I think its great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what, in my country, 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. Thank you very much.”

    it's kind of incoherent but i don't think it's much of a stretch to think that she was saying marriage should be restricted to heterosexuals in "her country." unless maybe she was planning on seceding if she won?
  • 2ironic4u
    Did she really denounce gay marriage or just say that that SHE AND HER FAMILY PERSONALLY view marriage as between a man and a woman (and yes, there is a difference).

    As a supporter of gay marriage and gay rights, I often find that my fellow liberal friends complain about people getting oppressed for their beliefs, while they still do the same thing. It's kind of like that atheist you know who hates it when people push religion on him/her yet will be happy to tell anyone else why being an atheist is the way to be.

    Not trying to get all political, just wanted some clarification.
  • whoneedslight
    I think the GOP is eyeing her for a spot on the ticket in 2012.
  • ghostyhead
    @RobMurphy: Uggh. Just when I thought this couldn't possibly get any worse.
  • RobMurphy
    "Alabama House considers resolution praising Miss California for position on gay marriage"

    http://www.whnt.com/news/sns-ap-al-xgr--misscal...
  • Lucas Jensen
    Gross. Michael Phelps is maybe dating her? Take a few more bong rips and think about that decision, dude.
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