In praise of honest questions
No doubt you’ve heard about the kerfuffle surrounding Miss California in the Miss USA pageant on April 18. If you haven’t then you are truly a blessed person and I’m going to introduce you to it – and thus remove your blessing I guess. Basically in the Q&A section she was asked whether she thought states should allow homosexual marriage. She answered honestly and happened to say that she did not believe in homosexual marriage. She ended up as the runner-up – many people say she would have won has she answered the question oppositely. I really don’t care about her answer, which I thought was oddly phrased and not well thought out, but hey she was nervous and probably expecting a question about world peace or something. My problem is with the questioner, a well known tabloid personality, who happens to be very pro-homosexual marriage. He asked the question thinking that he would get a particular answer based upon his bias and he didn’t get that answer. Ever since he has ravaged this young lady at every opportunity, because she did not answer the way he would have liked. Read the rest of this entry »
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