The REAL Miss USA

Just when you think you've passed the last pothole on the road of sound judgment and logic, out pops flamboyant gay "celebrity" blogger Perez Hilton and trashes the suspension on your SUV. I know I've sounded off on this before, but the events of the last week have just taken my breath away. So here I go again.

You may have seen what I'm talking about. The Miss USA pageant. Or maybe you missed it. Doesn't matter. I don't follow beauty pageants generally by virtue of the fact that they smack of meat-market sexism that rivals such deeply intellectual fare as "the Batchelor" and "Wife Swap" on the substance-o-meter. What piqued my interested in this one was the set-up question that Hilton intentionally dropped in the lap of Miss California, Carrie Prejean.

Hilton, aka Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. (his real name), openly stated that he set up the unwitting beauty contestant to have a national forum to bring this issue to the forefront. In other words, he hijacked this contest... which has NOTHING whatsoever to do with gay rights or gay marriage, to advance his own selfish agenda, and bring it before a "national audience." And Hilton personally has no moral or ethical problem doing so. You see, for gay rights activists, there is nothing that could be possibly unethical in advancing their "cause." There is no act too brazen, no lie too bold, no fraud too despicable, no sleaze too slimy. There are simply no holds barred in their quest to advance their agenda. Apparently, boundaries, ethics, constraint, diplomacy, etc. are for the OTHER side. Not them. After all, the end justifies the means, right? Those who oppose gay marriage dare not step out of line... or else. But PROPONENTS? Anything goes. The hypocrisy here is stunning and unbelievable. And completely unacceptable to us as a nation.

And as far as this loaded question goes, there was obviously no acceptable answer but one. In a stunningly brazen move, this inappropriate question was asked, with the prior approval of pageant organizer Lewis (who is also gay), deliberately to throw the contest the way Hilton and his conspirators wanted it to go, knowing that Prejean was a Christian, as well as to steal the spotlight from those who rightfully earned it... to HIM... and the cause he embraces so passionately. For Hilton, the entire pageant was simply a convenient vehicle to roughly shove aside the relevant purpose of the pageant to openly advance gay marriage... with some annoying girls thrown in for looks... pun intended. What was really revealing were the CHEERS from the audience that accompanied Prejean's statement... which Hilton then LIED about on Larry King and tried lamely to pretend that they were actually "boos."

Hilton sunk to an all-time head-scratching low when asked why he asked such a loaded question in such in inappropriate forum... his answer? "I thought it was relevant." Huh? At a beauty pageant? Hilton went on to explain that in HIS view, Miss USA should "represent ALL of us." Apparently, there is no room for conviction in Hilton's world, if it disagrees with his. One must honestly ask why Hilton himself isn't willing to take his own advice, reel in his invective, and be content to respect the "ALL of us" who disagree with HIM and his precious "cause"?

Prejean noted, quite correctly it seems, that the honest belief she shared (which is what Hilton asked, after all), cost her the Miss USA crown. And you'd have to be inhabiting the basement apartment under the closest rock not to agree. What was even more jaw-dropping was the fact that the pageant organizer agreed with Hilton that Prejean should not have been crowned Miss USA, based solely on her beliefs on gay marriage. WHAT???!!! So much for objectivity and fairness. Apparently, the Miss USA Pageant has jettisoned the "beauty" part for the sake of only naming someone who was supportive of the organizer's gay agenda. What's wrong with this picture? We have arrived at the ultimate precipice of absurdity... where a beauty pageant's beauty, grace, poise, and intelligence are disregarded, honest well-thought-out, well-expressed opinion is discouraged, and shallow, politically-correct pandoring pablum is exalted as the ultimate goal for the optimal "Miss USA."

The comically ridiculous part of all this came in an interview that Hilton gave on Larry King, wherein he stated that by honestly stating her beliefs (which statistically a vast majority of the population share, by the way), that she was being "divisive," and that she somehow wasn't "MY Miss USA," representing "the rest of America," such as "gays and lesbians and their families." That's funny. I somehow didn't realize that gays and lesbians represented "America." Apparently Hilton has never read a poll before, nor did he pay much attention to the statistics behind the decisive victory of Prop 8 in California... one of the most gay-friendly states in the nation. Nor has he paid attention to the myriad of national polls that have been conducted that have clearly outlined just exactly who the majority is on this issue. Poor dear. He probably doesn't realize that gays comprise a tiny minority in this country... and a minority whose public image is deteriorating at warp speed for just such antics as Hilton has displayed here.

The end result of this mess is that Hilton obtained far more exposure than he (or his cause) deserves, and a qualified, beautiful, courageous young woman was denied a crown that she most assuredly deserved... all because she had the strength, courage, and moral conviction to answer a set-up question honestly and with conviction. God bless her.

Fortunately, the majority in this country can see this ham-fisted, openly biased morality-bashing for what it was, and quietly acknowledge Carrie Prejean as the REAL Miss USA this year.

And the only real LOSER here.. is Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr., and the other morally and ethically bankrupt screeching, whining coalition of homosexuals and lesbians who insist that lying, fraud, dishonestly, and deception are justifiable strategies for forcing their views on a majority who have clearly rejected them. We can only hope that NAMBLA isn't waiting in the wings, studying the gay rights playbook, and planning their own campaign.