Today’s liberals are classy.  Powerline:

“I think that marriage should be between a man and a woman.” This answer was universally described as “controversial,” as, for example, by Yahoo News. Fox News wrote that her opposition to gay marriage “spark[ed] a furor.” A US News business (!) columnist called Prejean’s answer a “gaffe.” The Christian Science Monitor said that Miss California’s answer “spark[ed] outrage.” One could go on and on.

Many observers have speculated that Miss California’s “controversial” answer on gay marriage cost her the title. Ms. Prejean herself endorsed that theory earlier today, and added: “I stated an opinion that was true to myself and that’s all I can do.” Perez Hilton, who posed the question and was, of course, one of the judges, called her a “bitch,” for which he later apologized. That was after having voted, of course. [UPDATE: Perez has now retracted his apology, explaining that he really meant to call Miss California a c***. Perez is a typically high-class liberal. Which doesn't explain, of course, why he was chosen to judge the Miss USA contest.]

The two co-organizers of the Miss California pageant said they were “personally saddened and hurt that Miss California believes marriage rights belong only to a man and a woman.”

Nothing about this narrative could be surprising to anyone who pays attention to our news and our popular culture. Yet there is something very weird about the idea that Miss California lost the Miss USA crown because she gave such a “controversial” answer to a political question. After all, she represented the state of California in the pageant, and we know for a fact that most Californians agree with her, as evidenced by the recent Proposition 8 vote. Moreover, her position is not only the one endorsed by most Americans in opinion surveys, it is also the view taken by President Obama. So why is it more “controversial” than any other political opinion? We all know that if Miss California had answered Hilton’s question by saying that she believes in equal rights for all, and that means gay marriage, there would have been no controversy and, very likely, she would have won the title.

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Tags: gay marriage, Miss California, Perez Hilton

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