Miss California versus Gay Blogger Perez Hilton On Gay Marriage

[BNWriter]

I didn't see this anywhere else on he site, and only caught a slight bit of this being discussed on morning news, but I guess Miss California expressed her Judeo-Christian beliefs re: gay marriage and is now being hammered by the gay community, the PC police, and anybody else who feels they just have to weigh in.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517137,00.html

Guess what, Gay community and PC advocates: She is entitled to express her opinion on this subject since they asked her as part of the contest.

I know this will open such a can of worms, but let's be civil, please.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

In a battle between a beauty show contestant and a celebrity-obsessed BLOGGER!, there are no winners. Just losers.

 

[Double J]

This was mentioned very briefly on the Kenny Chesney thread on the Anything Goes board.

As I said there, "Perez" is probably thrilled about the whole controversy because people are talking about "Perez." The fact that he was even on the pageant in the first place is a wonderful example of the epic fail that is our society.

 

[andyouare?]

Conversely, aren't people who are open to gay marriage allowed to express their opinions, too? I don't get all the outrage. Unless you can definitively prove she lost because of her answer then I don't see her point.

People are saying bad things about her? Well guess what:

She walked around in a bikini and asked to be judged.

Sorry not much sympathy from me.

 

[Armchair_QB]

I didn't even know Perez Hilton was a guy.

 

[Grimace]

She walked around in a bikini and asked to be judged.

Hey that's not fair. She wants to be judged on superficial things, like her looks and boobs. It's not fair to judge her on her opinions.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

This was on Rachel Maddow's show last night. My favorite part of her response was about how its great where we live in a society with same-sex marriage and opposite marriage. Never heard of that before.

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

I love the "free speech" argument you always hear at times like this. No one's saying she can't say this stuff, that it would be illegal to or that she should fired, jailed and fined for saying it, just that people find it offensive. In this case, she's asking to be judged. If she was fat and paraded around in a bathing suit, the judges (or people voting) would dock points. Also, she didn't answer the question that was asked.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Why does anybody give a **** about "Perez Hilton" anyway?

 

[Grimace]

"Gay marriage? Sorry I just don't get it. How can a guy be gay? I mean, look at this ass! Are you saying you'd turn that down? Oh, and God bless our troops."

Now that would have been a better answer.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

The unfortunate aspect of this is it's overshadowing the health care answer that one of the contestants gave that is one of the funniest things I've ever heard.

 

[Ace]

Agree with all the Perez Hilton bashing.

However, BNWriter, yes we have free speech in this country. That is a right granted by the government. It doesn't mean we are free from the repercussions of our speech from gossip column bloggers or anyone else.

You are free to say what you want but aren't free from taking the heat for it.

 

[I Digress]

The fact that Perez Hilton is judging Miss USA or whatever it was, tells you it's time for pageants to leave us...

 

[Double J]

I love the "free speech" argument you always hear at times like this. No one's saying she can't say this stuff, that it would be illegal to or that she should fired, jailed and fined for saying it, just that people find it offensive. In this case, she's asking to be judged. If she was fat and paraded around in a bathing suit, the judges (or people voting) would dock points. Also, she didn't answer the question that was asked.

Well, she didn't, but she did. She was asked if states should allow same-sex marriage. She said she believes marriage should be between a man and a woman. That's a "no" answer to the question.

Why the issue was even relevant to the pageant in the first place is beyond me. Why any of these women are asked anything beyond the basics is beyond me. You might as well ask them their favourite flavour of yogurt for all the positive impact their answers will have on the world around them. And the Miss USA pageant deserves nothing but scorn for the very simple reason that it invited "Perez" to participate and gave him a platform for his patented brand of publicity whoring.

 

[BNWriter]

Why does anybody give a **** about "Perez Hilton" anyway?

I assure you, 2much, that I could care less what this third-string celeb blogger thinks, does, or says. What annoys me is he criticizes this contestant for expressing her opinion on the basis that, in his world view, her comments are not PC or gay-friendly, or whatever.

Sometimes, I wonder why we were so quick to be accepting of bloggers because most of them turn out to be people who are wannabe reporters or wannabe commentators whose opinions you wouldn't want to listen to anyway.

But this guy has broken through and we are all the poorer for it. While Miss Calif. is allowed her opinion, I find it odd that someone is not drowning out Perez Hilton to at least make this a fair debate rather than the pro-gay agenda mess it is becoming.

 

[I Digress]

uh, Perez criticizes her opinion because he's gay....seems pretty clear to me. But, as I said and others... the pageant sucks, he sucks, she sucks.... it's all a blight.

 

[DanOregon]

I saw it - it wasn't that she came out for men-women marriage only, it was that she said the great thing about America is that we have a choice.

“Well I think its great that Americans are able to choose one or the other,” she said. “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.”


We do?

And Perez fit right in with the rest of the judges, Keenan Thompson, one of Trump's sons, a recently dispatched Celebrity Apprentice contestant who holds a briefcase on Deal or No Deal, Willie Geist, and former Hefner girlfriend Holly Madison.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Not that the issue of gay marriage affects me, because to the best of my knowledge, I'm not gay. Still, I didn't care all that much for Ms. California's answer.

That being said, when a non-celebrity like Perez Hilton drops the c-word to describe her, then I start to feel bad for her. She was asked a question. She answered it, and just because she didn't answer it the way Perez or others may have liked, she's still entitled to her opinion.

Not only did Hilton retract his apology, he told O'Donnell that he didn't really want to call Prejean a bee-otch in the first place. "I was thinking the c-word and I didn't say it," he said, laughing.

http://www.kansascity.com/stargazing/story/1153833.html

 

[Diabeetus]

I'm not sure why anybody watches this crap in the first place.

 

[slappy4428]

Why does anybody give a **** about "Perez Hilton" anyway?

I've kinda found him to be like Mo Rocca -- living off 15 minutes of fame that need to be up.
She answered a question, he didn't like the answer and attacked her for it. Her answer differed with his -- welcome to America.