The issue is free speech, isn't it?
Her free speech may have cost her 1st place, but we see free speech cost people all the time...
George Allen practiced free speech with his "Macaca Boy" and it cost him his political career.
Howard Dean practiced free speech with his scream in Iowa that cost him his political career.
Who knows what went on behind the scenes with this situation? Maybe this girl was slurring gays, and Perez Hilton heard it and decided to put her in a box?
I saw the girl today, and she was unapologetic for her views.
America is a free country, everyone got their chance to speak freely, and they suffered the consequences.
This girl is now a right wing celebrity, she can appear with Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin at fundraisers, so I really don't see where anyone got hurt...
When I watched the girl interviewed today, she said that she was raised to believe certain things, and apparently she has not individuated from those beliefs.
Oh well, it is not the first time we have seen anti gay sentiment from a Miss America runner up...
Anita Bryant's Anti-Gay Legacy
By Joanne Mariner, FindLaw.com. Posted February 3, 2004.
In Florida, thousands of children are up for adoption, but gay parents need not apply.
Remember Anita Bryant, the Miss America runner-up turned orange juice tout turned anti-gay campaigner? Though she long ago faded from public view, her legacy survives in Florida.
Bryant, who condemned homosexuality as immoral and âagainst Godâs wishes,â is best known for her 1977 campaign to repeal a Miami ordinance banning anti-gay discrimination. Her organization, Save Our Children, claimed that gays -- or âknown practicing homosexuals,â in her lingo -- were converting children to homosexuality. It was thus no surprise that after Bryant succeeded in her self-described crusade against the bias ordinance, she turned her sights on Floridaâs adoption laws.
âSince homosexuals cannot reproduce,â Bryant reasoned, âthey must recruit and freshen their ranks.â Fanning the flames of anti-gay hysteria, Bryant helped convince the Florida legislature to pass a law that entirely barred gays from adopting children.
Fast forward more than two and a half decades. In the intervening years, Miami finally passed an anti-gay bias ordinance, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Texasâ ban on gay sodomy, and Anita Bryant slipped into obscurity.
Quote from ByLoSellHi:
There are a bunch of morons here who are blindly gay bashing, but the issue I was addressing was whether the question AND response to the question Perez Hilton perpetuated regarding Ms. California was fair in the least, and I stated it wasn't, and that Perez Hilton is an idiot to hijack the Ms. USA competition to serve his apparent one issue agenda.
Ms. California's answer was consistent with her personal belief, and there was no malice within it.
Not only that, she expressed reasonableness and intelligence in expressing her opinion, whether one agreed with it, or not.
That's the issue.