Carrie Prejean is Miss California. She didn’t win the Miss USA pageant last night, but she created such a controversy over her answer to a question on gay marriage that she’s all anyone is talking about today. It all started when celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton asked her a controversial question during the competition. It went downhill from there. Read about it below, see lots of pictures of Ms. Prejean and a video of her run in with Perez.
Carrie Prejean, Miss California
The last thing anyone expects at a Miss USA pageant is controversy. The most you might hope for is that someone will have a wardrobe malfunction or something of the sort. These beauty pageants are for beautiful women to strut around in swimsuits with high heels and lipstick on. That’s what they are for.
Usually, the ‘tough’ questions have to do with asking a contestants what she’ll do about world hunger should she win the contest. The expected answer is that she’ll spend her year traveling the world doing good as a proud and beautiful representative of the United States. We then promptly forget them and they do whatever it is they do after they win, wearing a tiara and perfect manicure at all times.
Then someone thought it was a good idea to put the controversial and gay celebrity blogger Perez Hilton on the judges panel. He, not surprisingly, decided to ask one of ‘those’ questions that aren’t supposed to be asked of beautiful women on stage with high heels, lipstick, perfect coifs and bodies to die for. Here’s the exchange between Carrie Prejean, Miss California and the judge, Perez Hilton.
PEREZ: Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?
CARRIE: I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and my family I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anyone out there but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be between a man and a woman.
She clearly came down on the side of “opposite marriage,” basically saying “no offense but your lifestyle isn’t valid.” I’m guessing Perez didn’t give her his vote, but Carrie still managed to finish as first runner up in the pageant.
I actually thought she did well, considering it was a beauty pageant and not a presidential debate. I mean, what was she supposed to say? Well … Perez didn’t like her answer AT ALL. In fact, today on his blog, in a video blog, he called her a ‘dumb bitch’.
Apparently, the pageant people were not happy with him injecting serious, controversial issues into the pageant either. There was some nastiness backstage between Hilton and the pageant organizers. Leftist bloggers are gunning for Miss California. People who otherwise didn’t even know there was a beauty pageant last night are acting as though this 21-year-old blond California beauty is the final authority on gay rights in the United States.
A couple of things happened in the whole Miss California gay marriage controversy. The Miss USA pageant has gotten at least three times the publicity it usually gets. Perez Hilton’s blog has probably gotten at least twice his usual traffic. Everybody is talking about Carrie Prejean, even though she came in first runner up and didn’t win. And hardly anyone knows who actually did win.
So who won Miss USA last night? Miss North Carolina, Kristen Dalton was named Miss USA 2009.
There you have it.
Carrie Prejean, Miss California - Photos
Carrie Prejean -Video
Miss California USA vs Perez Hilton
April 20th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Kind of silly to have a gay man judge a women’s beauty pageant. What would ‘he’ be looking for in a woman.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
oh, so there can only be 1 opinion or your wrong. Everyone is intitled to an opinion. This is the problem. There needs to be mutual respect for both sides.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Wow, I can’t spell today….oh so there can only be 1 opinion or you’re wrong. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. This is the problem. There needs to be mutual respect for both sides.
April 20th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
i think that there is to much time getting wasted on the same sex marriage thing. not everybody has to like or agree with it. perez is an idiot
April 20th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Carrie Prejean is now “The Real Queen”
April 20th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
I say good for her. Why is it that Perez can stand up for what he believe in but she can’t. There was nothing hateful about what she said. She just said what she believed and I agree with her.
April 20th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
The lesson we have to learn from people like Carrie is be true to yourself and stand by your beleifs
Do not hate people who do not share your opinion
I am happy she is getting this attention because I do not normally follow beauty contests as I think it is ……………trivia in the long run (to put it mildly)
but now I am giving her my support
April 20th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Isn’t it just like the flaky Hollywood type to ask a person for their opinion and then flip out because they didn’t like the answer. She should have won for her honesty over a very controversial question that had no bussiness being in the competition.
April 20th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Hilton should Judge nothing other than Drag Queen Pageants - !
Ridiculous for him to be a Judge at this Contest in the first place - clean up behind the scenes of these Beauty Pageants this is where the problem lies - Clean Up The Act!
April 20th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
i would like to see miss california run for president of the u.s.a., she sure would get my vote
April 20th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Way to go Carrie, great answer!
April 20th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
It’s one thing to subtract points for a contestant not answering a question “well.” It’s another thing to disagree with her answer and then trash her on a high-profile blog the next morning.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:05 am
What’s REALLY ridiculous is that bigotry is STILL alive and well in this nation of ours. Carrie Prejean is just the latest in a long line of bigots who would deny people their basic civil rights simply because they dislike someone’s idea of sexuality.
All unions should become Civil Unions; if individual Churches want to hold “marriage” ceremonies, that’s their right.
When is America going to ignore the religious zealots and do what is right for ALL people?
Memo to the God Squad: You don’t have the first idea what Jesus actually taught, or you wouldn’t be acting the way you are.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:54 am
Homosexuality is the road to extinction for any species. Homosexuals live off heterosexuals; they have to for survival as a group like parasites. The gay community has to convert more heterosexuals to find a partner. They will adopt same sex children. Don’t take my word, look around, do the research. It is covert genocide when authorities start approving same sex marriage.
April 21st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
There you have it folks. Miss USA will always be chosen on political and religious viewpoints. Forget the talent and beauty portion of the show. I applaud Carrie Prejean for standing firm to her opinion no matter what the cost. It is no longer popular being a Christian in America. This country has largely lost its moral compass. To Carrie Prejean, I say thank you and God bless you. I found your courage inspirational. America needs more people like you. It’s Perez Hilton who made a fool of himself going on an emotional tirade on the Internet and slandering her name until he was blue in the face.
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:41 am
I agrees with Danny, and secondly it not ethical to hilton to ask that a personal question like that because she it not running for the president seat. I very happy that she answer it that way, because it show that she a have firm foundation so that she did not sway with what is popular out there now a day. because I still remember a poster in school said that “what is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right” so great job miss Cal. and hilton please shut up it just show you are more intolerance of other people that doen’t support you. If you live in Asia countries you probably have a sex transplant than go around gay because they will kill you because they consider that as a illness for the society.
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:46 am
Thanks Miss Cali for speaking for the rest of us that aren’t crazy in California! If only our leaders would have as much backbone as you, we wouldn’t be in the messes we’re in today!
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:20 am
Who really cares what this prancing little phaggot has to say about anything.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:15 pm
What a shame when society can support an idiot like Perez Hilton and his feeble attempt in attacking Carrie Prejean’s personal beliefs that disagree with the beliefs of individual’s living immoral lifestyles. I vote we elect Perez Hilton as our country idiot.
This country needs more individual’s like Carrie Prejean who are not affraid to voice their opinion.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:21 pm
I think that little sissy Perez Hilton was jealous because heshe wasn’t standing on stage in a two piece bathing suit.
Perez resembles a plastic doll that is half guy and half girl…the g i don’t know doll.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Response to Marianne…Post #13
Cheney, Clinton, Obama, what do they have in common with Prejean? They all made the same public statement as Carrie Prejean during president obama binladens presidential campaign.
Just because an individual answers a question that was asked in a public forum and the answer does not please those listening, does NOT make that individual a bigot, it makes them honest, open and true to their beliefs.
I guess you must be one of those liberals that seems to think everyone must think as you.
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:25 pm
When did this country lose it’s voice … our freedom of speech? Why is it that when someone has a true belief or opinion about something, that someone feels they have the right to quash that belief? We are all created “equal” - and not everyone believes that the introduction of gay marriage is such a good thing, no matter how “modern” we have become. However, that’s not even the point to be argued here … the point is, Miss Cali had an opinion and I’m proud of her for standing up for HER own beliefs, instead of covering up her true feelings and being a major KISS ASS like the judges somehow expected her to be - there was NOTHING wrong with how she answered the question and if people were offended by it, too frikkin bad. I’m offended by stuff people say every day … but I’ll be damned if I’ll tell them they had no right to say those offensive things!!!! THIS IS AMERICA! Let’s break away from this COMMUNISTIC suppression of our free speech that we need to continue to PROTECT TO THE DEATH!
April 24th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Perez Hilton is a hypocrite — of course the question was about personal belief, just look at how he’s reacting
April 26th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
That so-called judge Perez Hilton (or whatever his real name is) had no business judging a women’s beauty pageant.
He had the audacity to call Ms. Prejean a “dumb bit–” and then has the nerve to criticize HER? Who’s really the dumb one? I hope Prejean sues and wins big time!!
April 29th, 2009 at 12:08 am
perez is an idiot,well done Carrie!
May 5th, 2009 at 11:51 am
He shouldn’t have asked her that question anyway.
May 8th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/aa6af1ea16/backstage-with-miss-california
May 12th, 2009 at 12:18 am
THERE IS MY OPINION, AND THERE IS YOUR OPINION, AND THERE IS WHAT GOD SAID. GOD SAID THAT HOMOSEXUALITY IS AN ABOMINATION.
September 18th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Perez only wanted to use the show to advance the gay agenda, intimidating us all into accepting that lifestyle.
He expected to hear from the lips of one of the most attractive people in America that “Gays are OK.”
Well, that gamble backfired, big time…
California has had plenty of years to assess the overall effect of gay culture in their area, and with Prop 8, they’ve spoken.
Gays need to be exposed as the deviant and abnormal people they are, and get treatment. Just like they do for people sexually interested in animals, children, the dead, whatever.
Perez is the kind of creature that repeatedly puts things in his mouth that have been in his own, other men’s azzes. He insists that this makes perfect sense…
November 20th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I can’t believe all the gay-bashing that I am reading. Gay people put a hold the population? I thought everyone has been worried about the OVER-population.
Maybe these beauty queens are not able to deal with REAL questions. We know they are not going to follow up with anything. They are just political ornaments.
I agree that Perez went a little far, with bashing her, for her opinion. He did go out-of-profession with what he called her, afterwards.
I read that these queens study, what is to be at these pageants. They also study the questions and etc…
They don’t know what they’ll be asked? That’s b/s ’cause WE already know. LOL They have their prepared answers and that a surprise ‘gay question’ comes along. The answer is: You answer whatever will get a vote from that judge.