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News & ArtsWednesday, April 29, 2009
Homo Politico: "Miss California emerges as 'opposite marriage' spokeswoman"
Posted by Dan Savage on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Like I wrote for the New York Times last week, Miss CA is gonna be dining out on this for the rest of her life:
Miss California, Carrie Prejean, who offered memorable opposition (above) to same-sex marriage and a young, attractive new face for the movement against it, will appear tomorrow at a press conference hosted by the National Organization for Marriage at the National Press Club, according to a press release from the group.She'll be launching a new ad, the second in what the group says is a $1.5 million campaign.
NOM claims that Miss CA was "attacked viciously" for speaking her mind. Uh-huh. A nasty queen called Miss CA a name and America's new Anita Bryant is going to be raking in the big bucks for years to come as a result. The book deal is coming, along with the speaking gigs at fundy churches. We should all be so lucky as to be so viciously attacked. Oh, and by getting involved in a political campaign—if she's personally involved, and not just being held up as a shining example of Christian martyrdom by NOM—Miss CA risks being stripped of her state crown, which will, of course, be held up as yet more evidence of that Miss CA is a persecuted Christian martyr.
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I recall months ago saying that the second the right wing gets its own Anita Bryant, it's the beginning of the end of their use of marriage equality as a plank and that the victories for equality would come like torrents.
In fact, I said "she'd have to be some ditzy Jessica Simpson" type.
It was really wishful thinking, but I'm glad I got something right for once.
In fact, I said "she'd have to be some ditzy Jessica Simpson" type.
It was really wishful thinking, but I'm glad I got something right for once.
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She's just following in the footsteps of another homophobic beauty queen who lost--Anita Bryant, Miss Oklahoma and second runner up in the 1959 Miss America Pageant.
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@3 yes, there's a pattern, and why the fuck are we expecting progressive liberal politics from this demographic?
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This poor young woman needs to have assigned to her a couple of bodyguards because the gay mafia is never happy being in the past tense, hence she was attacked viciously by fem guys and will continue to be attacked by them unless someone puts a stop to their attacks. She's young (not the image homosexuals like to portray of people who are pro the defense of marriage)
she's a real woman (something the lady wannabes hate) and she has a brain to go with her gorgeous looks (something the lady wannabes hate) more character assassinations by the pink lobby groups are to be expected.
she's a real woman (something the lady wannabes hate) and she has a brain to go with her gorgeous looks (something the lady wannabes hate) more character assassinations by the pink lobby groups are to be expected.
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Loveschild,
If you consider that travesty of plastic surgery, tanning cream and makeup to be "real" then there is no hope for you.
A brain? Her stumbling over her own ignorance and bigotry doesn't quite equate to that (but then, you also look in the mirror and proclaim "genius!")
If you consider that travesty of plastic surgery, tanning cream and makeup to be "real" then there is no hope for you.
A brain? Her stumbling over her own ignorance and bigotry doesn't quite equate to that (but then, you also look in the mirror and proclaim "genius!")
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@6
tee hee ahem.. ..snort.. 'the gay mafia'.. chortle 'bodyguards'.. guffaw.. ' fem guys'.. sniggle..'real woman' tee hee ...' brain' ...snort.. chuckle.. 'lady wannabees'.. guffaw...'pink lobby'..guffaw... snort..
tee hee ahem.. ..snort.. 'the gay mafia'.. chortle 'bodyguards'.. guffaw.. ' fem guys'.. sniggle..'real woman' tee hee ...' brain' ...snort.. chuckle.. 'lady wannabees'.. guffaw...'pink lobby'..guffaw... snort..
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Dan's comments to the NYT were spot on. If she had won the crown, no one would have heard of her, forever. This is the best thing that she could possibly have "won" in that contest. I look forward to NOM's new ad and the parodies to follow.
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"a young, attractive new face": Attractive to who, exactly? Tan, blonde bimbo types appeal to a select audience. Personally I dislike Hilton (he seems like a real tool and his "look I drew stuff on this picture with MS paint" "comedy" is annoying to me), but as you say Miss CA should be thanking her lucky stars he not only asked the question, but he then proceeded to ridicule and call her names. Personally, I'm thankful to him too, because if this is the best the anti-civil rights crowd can come up with, we are definitely winning.
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@6. Look, make your mind up. Either you think the, ahem, 'pink lobby/gay mafia' are a bunch of effeminate, ineffectual 'lady wannabes' or you think they're a vicious, violent threat that necessitate Miss CA's immediate acquisition of hired goons. Not both.
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"Viciously attacked"?
Yes, photoshopping her picture on a website and calling her names on a blog post are EXACTLY like tying her to a fence and battering her skull in.
*goes off to beat head against wall for awhile*
(I know better than to try to teach a pig to sing - it just wastes your time and annoys the pig - but sometimes the offkey screeching just gets to me.)
Yes, photoshopping her picture on a website and calling her names on a blog post are EXACTLY like tying her to a fence and battering her skull in.
*goes off to beat head against wall for awhile*
(I know better than to try to teach a pig to sing - it just wastes your time and annoys the pig - but sometimes the offkey screeching just gets to me.)
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""attacked viciously" for speaking her mind"
No no, she was attacked viciously for being an idiot, oh wait...
To be fair I would viciously attack anyone who claims gay people shouldn't have the same rights as 'opposite people'. I would mock them equally for it as well.
No no, she was attacked viciously for being an idiot, oh wait...
To be fair I would viciously attack anyone who claims gay people shouldn't have the same rights as 'opposite people'. I would mock them equally for it as well.
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Spokeswoman? Here is what she said during the pageant. (I just youtubed it and transcribed her response.)
"Well, I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. Um, we live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what? In my country? And in, 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 that it should be, between a man and a woman."
Some spokeswoman. She's just this side of a Saint Bernard.
"Well, I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. Um, we live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what? In my country? And in, 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 that it should be, between a man and a woman."
Some spokeswoman. She's just this side of a Saint Bernard.
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Wow people are incredibly cruel to a woman who was asked a loaded question on a pageant, then spoke her opinion. I personally don't care about pageants, but am always amazed by the anger the left can drudge up when it comes to unimportant things. Instead of complaining about her comments, get out and try to rally people to your cause with well thought out points and ideas. You can't always expect everyone to beleive what you want them to believe, but it's more productive than calling a woman with an opinion a cunt.
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If having the right to marry the person you love is so "unimportant" @23, why does the RIGHT go bat-shit crazy every time it's mentioned?
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Cue Loveschild's rant about swine flu as a pestilence sent by God as punishment for Vermont and Iowa legalizing same sex marriage in three...two...one...
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If that was "speaking her mind", whoo-boy. That was barely a sentence. Did Sarah Palin bring Moose Flu with her when she swung through California?
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speaking of michael phelps...
he is sporting a woody in a recent "ranger rick", a kid's nature magazine.
whoops!
he is sporting a woody in a recent "ranger rick", a kid's nature magazine.
whoops!
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Anyone else think Gary Schneeberger looks gayer than Dan in his photo on the NYT link? Also, I'll point out that I called the Sarah Palin-Anita Bryant resemblance on Slog shortly after her nomination (see @6): http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/hey_…
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Saying that you wrote for the New York Times when you actually wrote for the online BLOG is pretty misleading. But I wouldn't expect anything less from an entitled prick like yourself, Dan.
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You girls can be all snarky but this lady's story resonates with a lot of people and reinforces their fears of what America has become.
She has a nice career ahead of her thanks to Hilton.
She has a nice career ahead of her thanks to Hilton.
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"Like I wrote for the New York Times last week...."
Speaking of which; Tafel, Gallagher and even Schneeberger handed you your ass.
You should really change your schtick when you venture into the grown-up world.
The whiny bitch thing plays with the ditto-heads on Slog but not so much elsewhere.
Speaking of which; Tafel, Gallagher and even Schneeberger handed you your ass.
You should really change your schtick when you venture into the grown-up world.
The whiny bitch thing plays with the ditto-heads on Slog but not so much elsewhere.
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29 - I agree. 27 - proof, please?
31 - Actually, he was accurate. He wrote the NYT. It happened to be on their blog. Who's blog? The NYT's. So he wrote for them. There ya go. He's not the only writer to do that because it's not inaccurate.
31 - Actually, he was accurate. He wrote the NYT. It happened to be on their blog. Who's blog? The NYT's. So he wrote for them. There ya go. He's not the only writer to do that because it's not inaccurate.
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