No offense:
2. It wasn't her answer, per se. It was the stupidity of her rambling, almost self-contradictory answer. At first she was waffling and giving a perfectly honest "non-answer" which is the norm for a Beauty Pageant where boobs are more important than brains. She then turned the answer into a "gay bashing" answer for which she claimed "no offense" when it was CLEARLY OFFENSIVE. One of the rules of life is if you have to say "no offense" you have clearly said something offensive AND YOU KNOW IT.
3. NOM is the kiss of death for her career aspirations, though she should be able to eek-out a second-rate career in the Christian industry. Further, between this association and her choice of booking agents, she's clearly a stupid person. You do not make it from the Christian sub-market, with the high-handed, better-than-thou, holy-roller attitude, into the mainstream unless you just run a fluke or two under the radar, like Jars of Clay (a who have a story of foolish regression in their own right). But I somehow doubt a career is what she is after...
4. What are the consequences of Gay Marriage anyway? DOMA is still the horrible law of the land, denying gays 1,100 basic rights shared by heterosexual married couples. Hopefully a solid 14th Amendment Challenge can be made and it'll be repealed. But, for now, about the only thing "gay marriage" does is allow two people in love to formalize their bond.
5. As an aside, I see she was Miss LaJolla before she became Miss California. The bigotry doesn't surprise me in the slightest considering the "spoiled, Republican, rich-kid" demographics of the city. It's wing-nut heaven...
What happens when a young California beauty pageant contestant is asked, "Do you support same-sex marriage?" She is attacked viciously for having the courage to speak up for her truth and her values. But Carrie's courage inspired a whole nation and a whole generation of young people because she chose to risk the Miss USA crown rather than be silent about her deepest moral values. "No Offense" calls gay marriage advocates to account for their unwillingness to debate the real issue: Gay marriage has consequences.1. What debate? There is no "debate." You assert that it is evil and use some bullshit bronze-age religious text that has, frankly, been discredited (as the "inerrant Word of God") by modern archaeological science and end the debate, before it begins, with name calling. Not once have you made any case, based on factual evidence, that gay marriage would cause any harm to society.
2. It wasn't her answer, per se. It was the stupidity of her rambling, almost self-contradictory answer. At first she was waffling and giving a perfectly honest "non-answer" which is the norm for a Beauty Pageant where boobs are more important than brains. She then turned the answer into a "gay bashing" answer for which she claimed "no offense" when it was CLEARLY OFFENSIVE. One of the rules of life is if you have to say "no offense" you have clearly said something offensive AND YOU KNOW IT.
3. NOM is the kiss of death for her career aspirations, though she should be able to eek-out a second-rate career in the Christian industry. Further, between this association and her choice of booking agents, she's clearly a stupid person. You do not make it from the Christian sub-market, with the high-handed, better-than-thou, holy-roller attitude, into the mainstream unless you just run a fluke or two under the radar, like Jars of Clay (a who have a story of foolish regression in their own right). But I somehow doubt a career is what she is after...
4. What are the consequences of Gay Marriage anyway? DOMA is still the horrible law of the land, denying gays 1,100 basic rights shared by heterosexual married couples. Hopefully a solid 14th Amendment Challenge can be made and it'll be repealed. But, for now, about the only thing "gay marriage" does is allow two people in love to formalize their bond.
5. As an aside, I see she was Miss LaJolla before she became Miss California. The bigotry doesn't surprise me in the slightest considering the "spoiled, Republican, rich-kid" demographics of the city. It's wing-nut heaven...
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