Anti-gay marriage answer 'Cost me my crown'

[Sis]

Miss Calif.: Anti-gay marriage answer 'Cost me my crown'

MSN Entertainment - April 20, 2009, 3:54 PM EST

Miss California Carrie Prejean thinks her anti-same sex marriage opinion cost her the Miss USA title on Sunday.

In an interview on Monday's Billy Bush Show Prejean stated: "It did cost me my crown. I wouldn't have had it any other way. I said what I feel. I stated an opinion that was true to myself and that's all I can do."

During the show, celebrity judge Perez Hilton asked Prejean on whether she thought same-sex marriage should be legalized. Prejean replied: "In my country, and in my family, I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman." Prejean later lost to Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton, who took home the crown.

"It is a very touchy subject and (Hilton) is a homosexual and I see where he was coming from and I see the audience would've wanted me to be more politically correct," she said. "But I was raised in a way that you can never compromise your beliefs and your opinions for anything."

Even though her answer stirred up some controversy, Prejean said she still felt like she won the competition.

"I feel like I'm the winner. I really do," Prejean said, mentioning that she had more than 200 friend requests and 1,000 new messages on Facebook.

http://tv.msn.com/miss-california-controversy/?GT1=28103

[dnr1128]

Good for her!  Sleazeball hilton asked a provocative question, and he got an honest answer.  If he didn't like it, he shouldn't have asked the question.  Mad props to her for standing her ground!

Yet one more example that homosexuals are bigoted and non-tolerant against anyone who doesn't approve of them.

[Sis]

It isn't right for a judge to ask a question like that if he's on one side of the issue. He should never have asked that one, then judged her on her answer. He asked for her opinion, after all.

[mesipie]

i know...i think they should have been fair abt it...they should have asked the other girl the same q...lol...im glad she stood up for her beliefs...she could have just lied and said that she thought it was ok...but she didnt

[Niki]

The question should never have been asked, and if she was penalized for being honest and stating her beliefs, then obviously that was wrong. Still, it kind of bugs me that she thinks she would've won anyway only because it seems to take away from the woman who did win. As if Miss North Carolina (woohoo!) wouldn't have won if Miss California had gotten a different question or answered in a different way.

[Sis]

    Don't you have a slight prejudice?

[Niki]

Just a teensy one. 

[Sis]

BTW, you made a great point, but I swooped in on the NC thing. 

[Ashlee]

Yet one more example that homosexuals are bigoted and non-tolerant against anyone who doesn't approve of them.

I'm sorry, this may be wrong and rude of me to say, but it's how I feel.  Homosexuals aren't like this.  I know many personally and they just want someone to care about them.  Many would not be homosexual today if someone had taken the time to help them instead of judging them.

I find this statement more true of pentecostals than homosexuals.

[Sis]

When people talk about them it's usually a blanket statement about the political ones, and the ones who are pushing their agenda. I know some, too, and as individuals, they're ok. But the Big HOMOSEXUALS are a big problem in our country.

[Gingerale]

There is a difference of personalities in a homosexual and a flaming homosexual. I was engaged to an apostolic pastor. He "came out" and degraded and humiliated me in front of his whole congregation. He is flaming now. Flamers have the attachment of "look at me, look at me". I think that is a spirit in itself. my close friend [name withheld] is a pastor of a homosexual pentecostal Jesus name holiness standard church. He is not a flamer. And I can tolerate him, without condoning the sin.     Ashlee- i agree with you to a point. however- most sinners wouldn't be the way they are if they were taught right and loved with Godly love. But would you say the same about people who look at child pornography? What about someone who kills beautiful women for thrills? love the person, but wrong is wrong. and this nation [even the church] is becoming desensitised to conviction, and the fear of God. I say kudos to Prejean for still having the unction and guts to stand up for what our nation was built on. God.

[Chérie]

i'm more appalled that any of you really care who "miss america" is, keep up with it, or feel this strongly about who should have "won". this competition is so demeaning to women everywhere. its yet another pop culture hold over from an era when women were expected to be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. its nothing more than a beauty pagent cleverly operating under the guise of a scholarship, so these women should feel some sort of acheivement for taking their clothes off and parading themselves on stage.


   

[Sis]

No, she's a woman who dared to stand before a large group of people and go against the popular PC and say what she really felt. She blew a whole wad of money (Had she won) because she had the guts to do what most people would be afraid to do.

[mesipie]

wow...danielle..i guess u r all for womens lib...lol...which in itself is not biblical actually

[Chérie]

yeah i guess you could say i'm not "biblical".

[Gingerale]

being raised in pageants, I agree to a point with danielle. However, What does it matter who we wanted to/thought should win? The point of the thread is not to bash homosexuals. It is to commend a woman with OBVIOUS godly values, for doing what most of even pentecostals, I dare say, would not even do. The world would be almost totally corrupt if the pentecostals were the only ones to stand up for righteousness.. The Bible CLEARLY states what is an abomination and what is right in the sight of God. People, we've got to get ready. Wake ourselves up. Eternity is for Eternity. It's time we ALL become righteous, Lest, we are given over to a reprobate mind. 

[mesipie]

i wasnt trying to call u unbiblical...lol...sorry if i came across like that...but ...the Bible does talk about submission etc...which sometimes stinks, but is right

[Chérie]

i think that God gave women a brain to use, and i am not saying that women aren't to submit themselves spiritually, but i do believe much of that scripture was and is misinterpreted, added to, and abused.

[mesipie]

i think we are given a brain to use too...and im not talking abt a mans interpretation of the scriptures...but i do know that we are to submit...that desnt mean to be walked on, and that doesnt mean that we should never question...but it means that we should go about it in a respectful way

[Chérie]

apparently taking nude photos also might cost miss cali her crown...

[EricShane]

that girl assured her seat in heaven.. *sarcasm*

lol.. but seriously, i mean.. How DUMB is she!? haha.. thats so totally NOT the answer you say at ANY Pageant!!!

[Sis]

You sayin' she should have lied?

[EricShane]

You sayin' she should have lied?

Yes!

lol..

[Gingerale]

I'd rather tell the truth and lose my crown than lie and go to hell. lol.

[Sis]

Good answer, Ginger!