I haven’t comment on the whole Miss California thing becuase frankly I find the whole thing boring. Frankly, I found her answer to the question relatively uncontroversial, other than perhaps the whole describing mixed-sex marriage as “opposite marriage” but then who expects the type of girls who want to be beauty queens to be brilliant thinkers (not that there aren’t exceptions to the rule). But what I am getting tired of, is reading all the conservatives fawning over how big of a victim she is in the whole ordeal.
Who cares how she answered any question or otherwise performed in the contest? She was put under scrutiny for violating contractual agreements. When she joined the Miss USA pageant she signed her name that she had not had any nude or semi-nude photos taken of her. Yet she had. She signed her name that she would not speak on behalf of any political groups without pageant approval. Yet she has. She signed that she would attend various official events as Miss California. Yet she’s been missing them.
If I lied on my resume to get the job, then began skipping work so I could go work for some of my company’s competitors, I’d be fired almost right away. That’s what Miss CA has done, yet she gets to keep her job. If getting paid to ignore your (ill-gotten) job responsibilities and do whatever you want makes you a victim, where do I sign up? I couldn’t possibly care any less about some beauty queen’s views on marriage equality, but the pity party for the hurt feelings of a spoiled brat who has gotten away with more than anyone else would have been allowed is frankly a bit nauseating.
The evangelical Christian persecution complex comes into full flower with Carrie Prejean. They feel like the world is a hostile place, hostile to their beliefs and hostile to them personally. That may in some respects be true, but largely because they behave in a manner so offensive even Jesus himself would be appalled.