LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – After failing to stop recent gay marriage approvals in several states, opponents have found an attractive, telegenic poster woman in Miss California, a move reminiscent of beauty queen Anita Bryant’s 1970s crusade against gay rights.
Miss California, a Christian college student named Carrie Prejean, joined in a television ad campaign against gay marriage this week, upsetting homosexual rights advocates, including a head of the Miss California pageant.
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In the 1970s, another beauty queen named Anita Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma, became a voice against homosexuality after leading a campaign to repeal a Miami-area gay rights ordinance. She was famously quoted as saying, “If gays are granted rights, next we’ll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail-biters.”In contrast to Bryant’s bluntness, Prejean has said she means “no offense,” a phrase she used at the Miss USA pageant while answering a question from gay celebrity blogger Perez Hilton by stating, “in my country and in my family, I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman.”
No offense, Miss California, but you’re an empty-headed closed-minded bigot. It’s too bad when people use their celebrity to spread hate, which is exactly what you’re doing. Saying “no offense” doesn’t make your backwards comments inoffensive, rather it proves how clueless you are about the damage you are doing. Enjoy your 15 minutes, Miss California, too bad you didn’t use them for peace, or love, or health, or food, or tolerance, or anything else positive.
