Miss California Just Lost Me
Tommy Christopher
Contributor
Posted:
04/30/09
Up until now, I've been on Carrie Prejean's side on her answer to Perez Hilton's gay marriage query at the Miss USA pageant. While I disagree with her, she didn't choose the question, and has a right to her opinion. As she points out, her answer didn't differ much from the President's. In fact, her vision of an America where people can choose same sex marriage or "opposite marriage" is far more generous than the reality.Furthermore, Perez Hilton acted like a real a**hole about it, calling Prejean a number of misogynist slurs, and damaging the cause of gay rights in the process.
Unfortunately, Prejean has gone from being an individual with her own opinion, to an advocate for taking away the rights of others.
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Let me start by saying that Carrie Prejean has the right to say what she wants. This is a free country, and no-one should try to silence her. By the same token, I have the right to point out that she has now traded in her status as the unjustly attacked, for that of the unjust attacker.
It is an obvious irony that while she claims to "protect marriage," her actions aim to literally destroy thousands of marriages, marriages between real people. It is one thing to have a religious or philosophical belief, no matter how cruel and hateful. It is quite another to wield that belief as a bludgeon to the head of another's lawful rights.
The real villainy of people like Prejean and her Opposite Marriage Defense Force isn't in their opposition to gay marriage, though. Gay marriage is coming, there's no way around that. Americans rise to the cause of freedom every time, even if it takes them longer than it should.
No, the real problem is their validation of the idea that gay people are less than human, are due less rights than the rest of us. While these people may or may not feel hatred in their hearts, or just not be aware of it, they give comfort to those who do.
Human rights are inherent. They cannot be granted, only recognized. They cannot be taken away, only violated. What a shame that someone so beautiful has chosen such an ugly path.
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