Crown With Thorns

The Miss America Pageant is a chance for women from every state to show their beauty, skills, and in some rare cases, their intelligence. Most of what I stated was well represented by most of the contestants (especially the winner, Kristen Dalton, apparently), with the exception of Miss California, Carrie Prejean. She was posed a simple question by pageant judge Perez Hilton (gay blogger and television personality): "Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?"

Now, think of the most logical response you can to this answer (keeping in mind that you want to win the pageant), and Prejean's was the opposite. Not only does she say that she is glad people have a choice between having a gay or straight marriage (by the way, she's assuming homosexuality is a choice), but she also said she believes marriage to be between a man and a woman. Also, same-sex marriage is not a choice in most states aside from Massachusetts, Iowa, and Vermont, so how is there even a choice? But anyway, this is how it went down:

Not only did she completely not take into account the entire gay rights struggle in California (which I don't see how she was chosen to represent an entire state with her views, but oh well), but she also created dissent among the gay and straight community, which, as Perez Hilton stated in his blog response to the whole incident, a Miss America should not do. His blog response is below:

Perez Hilton's Video Response

Although I am not a big fan of Perez Hilton, I agree with his basic argument of why he thought Miss California lost, which was that she did not make a intelligent response to the question. But if I will go as far as to call her a "dumb bitch" is another point entirely. And the answer to that is yes, I agree with him on that too.