Posted by
Patrick Henry on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 3:56:33 PM
Militant homosexuality suffered a reversal of fate yesterday when pageant kingpin
Donald Trump refused to defrock reigning Miss California beauty queen Carrie
Prejean, who was also Miss America runnerup, of her crown. Trump stated in
announcing his decision that Miss Prejean's views on gay marriage had "nothing
to do" with her ability to fulfill her duties.
That prompted a resignation from the Miss California pageant by former Miss
USA Shanna Moakler, an outspoken advocate of gay rights, on grounds that she
"no longer believes in the organization" and wishes to be "true to her principles."
The reversal comes after a broadside onslaught by gay activists and liberal media
organizations on Prejean, who has become the object of their hatred and scorn
for truthfully answering that she believes that "marriage" is reserved for "a man and
a woman." Alas for Moakler, MSNBC, Perez Hilton and the left wing blog, well,
things didn't work out quite the way they planned. Donald Trump told them all,
basically, to shove it.
Moakler's criticisms of Prejean for appearing in racy. but not nude, photographs
as a teenager rang a bit hollow from the former beauty queen who, in 2001 posed
as a Playboy centerfold, and later that year had a child out of wedlock. But most
important of all is the fact that Trump's decision reaffirms Prejean's First
Amendment right to free speech, one that gay activists would very much like to
squelch. It also acknowledges that Prejean's views are consistent with those of
the majority of California voters, who recently approved Proposition 8 banning
gay marriage in the state.
Even Hollywood couldn't sway this one. Although stars and starlets waxed
eloquent in extolling gay rights and bashing Prejean, Trump was not swayed.
The only disappointment is that Trump said he would welcome Perez Hilton
back as a judge. Well, gains come a step at a time. Maybe if there is a contest
for tasteless, foul-mouthed, low-class individuals Hilton would be a good
choice. It takes one to know one!