Carrie Prejean: If I'm A Bigot, So Is The President!

Posted on Nov 10, 2009 @ 05:59PM

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Defending her views against gay marriage, former Miss California Carrie Prejean continues to stir controversy. The former beauty queen's new book Still Standing contains a passage that is bound to raise eyebrows.

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Writing about her hysteria-making moment during the Miss USA pageant, Carrie says: "But like most Californians and a certain candidate for president from Illinois, I believed then and I believe now that marriage should be a legally recognized sacrament between a man and a woman. If that makes me a bigot, so is Barack Obama."

(Note to Carrie: Don't expect an invitation to the White House any time soon.)

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She continues in the book: "I was not then, nor am I now, aspiring to be the next Anita Bryant. I am comfortable with all God's children. Civil unions between gay people, at least as a matter of law, have always been fine with me. "If asked, I would have told you that I believed that gay couples should have visiting rights in the hospital, just like everybody else."

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She also talks about pageant executive director Keith Lewis and her thoughts when she learned he was an openly gay man who lived with his long-term boyfriend.

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"I soon learned that Keith was an openly gay activist who had been with his boyfriend for seven years. Despite the impression you might have of me from the more hysterical concerns of the mainstream media, I took in all this information without judgment. The fact of the matter is, I liked Keith. I think he took to me as his protégé," she added.

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"I believe that the traditional definition of marriage should not be changed. By the same token, I am not bothered by the idea of gay people choosing to live their lives together as they see fit - just as Keith and his boyfriend did - just don't call it marriage.

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In a more bizarre aside, she attempts to take apart the word homophobic: "If you ever get bored, look up 'homo' in the dictionary: it means 'man' as in Homo Sapiens or 'the same' as in homogenous, so to be 'homophobic' really means to be fearful of men, which I'm not, or fearful of things being the same, which is a fear I think few people have. 'Homophobic' is merely a made-up word to try to force everyone to be politically correct on gay marriage or risk being accused of being hateful."

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Comments

Her 15 minutes of fame are almost over...do you notice how these kinds of people pop up with no talent, but want to be celebreties just the same. I'm way over this one. They should stop photographing her, she's old news

by judyj
Posted Wed, 11/11/2009 - 12:19am

I used to defend her but now I see her as self serving.As for her judging gay ppl. In my ( Christian opinion ) I have no right to judge anyone. Everyone deserves the same rights.Anything else is discrimination.

by paix mon cher
Posted Tue, 11/10/2009 - 11:27pm

Carrie comes across as she is on this "mission from God", yet the way that she speaks of others is terrible. I completely understand her gay/lesbian views but the lies coming out are exposing her.

by Alaboutique
Posted Tue, 11/10/2009 - 11:19pm

She has been exposed as a fraud. Even many conservatives are now over her and can see right through her self serving ways and multiple lies. She seemed very mean and defensive on the two interviews I saw her on today.

by PhillipP
Posted Tue, 11/10/2009 - 11:01pm

I agree with her 100%. Marriage, in front of God, should be between a man and a woman. Period. Gays/Lesbians should have legal rights but it is different from "marriage" and should stay that way.

by emma2009
Posted Tue, 11/10/2009 - 10:33pm

I agree completely as well, but she is being criticized for talking about God and her family, conservative values, all the while there are sex tapes and topless photos of her that she didn't disclose.

by Alaboutique
Posted Tue, 11/10/2009 - 11:15pm

She also talks about her "good" values yet writes a scathing self-serving book. She has taken to becoming harsh and condescending, epitomy of hypocracy.

by Alaboutique
Posted Tue, 11/10/2009 - 11:17pm

I would like to tell her to go **** herself, but she seems to have taken care of that already in her nasty video. What part of her Christian values allows for diddling oneself?

by LookyHere
Posted Tue, 11/10/2009 - 9:30pm

who cares....she can have sex tapes and still blieve gay marriage is wrong doesn't make her a bigot unless she has filed for marriage to a chick.

by white trash bea...
Posted Tue, 11/10/2009 - 9:27pm

It's one thing to stand for these values, as do I, but to turn around and bash people publicly and in print? She is not exactly as squeaky clean as she purports to be publicly. Her book appears only self-serving.

by Alaboutique
Posted Tue, 11/10/2009 - 9:31pm