Bigoted Beauties: The New Anti “Queens”

  

 Dear Friends:

Add one talentless beauty queen and a dash of anti-gay bigotry and you get the next big “celebrity” sensation (I wonder when talent will, once again, become a prerequisite for being famous?). The Advocate wrote this interesting article about a very disturbing phenomenon…

How’s this for a new formula to achieve infamy in today’s era of instant celebrity? Take one beauty queen, add her personal religious beliefs, and then mix in opposition to same-sex marriage. The result is a combustible media firestorm sure to bring the beauty queen overnight notoriety.

In 2009 decrowned Miss California USA Carrie Prejean used that formula to ride on the unexpected fame triggered by her “opposite marriage” interview answer at the Miss USA pageant. Now, we have “Miss Beverly Hills” Lauren Ashley — who intends to compete for the Miss California USA crown in November — voicing her opposition to same-sex marriage based on her literal reading of the Bible. Lauren Ashley has gotten even more specific than Carrie Prejean; she has quoted the Book of Leviticus’s directive to “put to death” any man who “lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman” to support her belief that the Bible is “pretty black and white” about condemning homosexual relations.

Not surprisingly, Miss Beverly Hills’s publicly-voiced opinion triggered a wave of recent press coverage and backlash against her for a too-literal, naive reading of Scripture. Before this, she was a relatively unknown state pageant contestant-to-be who does not even hail from Beverly Hills. (Lauren is actually from Pasadena, but under the rules of the Miss California USA Pageant was able to claim the mantle of Miss Beverly Hills. The city of Beverly Hills swiftly issued a statement disclaiming any affiliation with her.)

This makes me wonder whether we are seeing the start of a new trend with this fiery formula — beauty queens who cite their religious beliefs to oppose marriage equality in order to gain (or extend) 15 minutes of fame. Perhaps we should give this trend a nifty moniker. How about “Sashes Against Same-Sex Marriage”? “Beauty Queens Against the Queens”? Or “Crowns Opposed to Marriage Equality”? Before you know it, a new organization could emerge with some fierce acronyms.

I have some experience with this phenomenon — and not just because I am a fan of beauty pageants. I was in the audience at the Miss USA 2009 pageant in Las Vegas when Carrie Prejean infamously gave her “no offense” comments opposing gay marriage in response to a question from judge Perez Hilton. Given the murmuring in the audience, I wondered sitting there whether this young woman would leverage her YouTube moment to rise to infamy…

http://www.advocate.com/

Personally, I don’t believe we should give these bitches the attention they so eagerly crave. All they want are their fifteen minutes and a guest spot on Bill O’racist’s show. Had Perez Hilton not made such a fuss over Carrie Prejeans then MAYBE there would be no need for this article? ::sigh::

Toddy English.

This is considered as attractive? Maybe if those vampires on Buffy get you loose then yeah...otherwise? NO.

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