Queen for a Day

There’s another controversial spokesperson for a social advertising campaign in the United States this month.  Beauty pageant contestant Carrie Prejean, who is currently Miss California but feels that she was slighted for the grander Miss America title because of remarks that she made against same sex marriage, is the new spokesperson for the anti-gay group the National Organization for Marriage.

First, Prejean’s faltering answer about “opposite marriage” was compared to Miss South Carolina’s famous gaffe spread by YouTube about world geography in an implicit comparison of the idiocy of beauty queens to the idiocy of anti-gay advocates.  Now Prejean has been embarrassed by the appearance of topless photos that seem to undermine her image of religious conservatism.  Despite seeming to violate her contract for participating in the pageant, Prejean will keep her crown as Miss California and continue with her advocacy work for NOM.

(In my Virtualpolitik blog I’ve written about some of the parodies made of the first National Organization for Marriage ad, “A Gathering Storm,” as has Marc here on Osocio.)

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It’s sad how people will spin things. I don’t feel sorry for any conflict that a person brings upon themself for having bigoted beliefs. The truth is that people who oppose gay marriage are simply repeating the ideas of a religious figure from their church without really researching it themselves. I challenge all opponents of gay marriage to please watch the documentary FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO. You can also check out a short film I did of a gay marriage last year with interviews from family and friends about the issue at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml6hUfBASMY