via: http://failblog.org/2009/12/11/protest-win/
Because the first Carrie Prejean wasn’t awful enough!
Hark! to the Breaking News that has been announced on the Fox News Dot Com Light Entertainment Fun Web Site that calls itself “Pop Tarts,” for reasons I don’t especially care to contemplate. Anyway, just… like… read this shit. I mean, holy shit.
Former Miss California Carrie Prejean isn’t the only beauty queen open to expressing her objection to same-sex marriage. Miss Beverly Hills 2010 Lauren Ashley is also speaking out in support of traditional nuptials.
“The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman. In Leviticus it says, ‘If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.’ The Bible is pretty black and white,” Ashley told Pop Tarts.
“I feel like God himself created mankind and he loves everyone, and he has the best for everyone. If he says that having sex with someone of your same gender is going to bring death upon you, that’s a pretty stern warning, and he knows more than we do about life.”
To be fair to the horrible pea-brained bigot, this is at least honest, in the sense that if you are going to make a Bible-based case against homosexuality, you really ought to be up front about how that case involves murdering gay people. “Lauren Ashley” (I refuse by the way to believe that there exists somebody named “Lauren Ashley” on general principles, as that sounds like the name of an off-brand perfume you’d get sneered at for trying to buy at the dollar store. And I should know, since I shop at dollar stores. You get good deals there on arugula lattes. Anyhow.)
I mean, I like that she’s too, er, unfamiliar, with this “speaking in public and not sounding nuts” thing to avoid the underlying contradictions of the “Christian” argument against homosexuality, which, as she explicitly explains, is:
1. God says homosexuals should be put to death.
2. But, remember, and this is a Key Point, when you put homosexuals to death, do it because, like God, you love them very much.
It’s the sort of conundrum Maggie Gallagher sort of skates over.
Though “Lauren Ashley” does sort of recall that she needs to remind us that she has Many Gay Friends:
But with the Miss California Pageant still months away, and Ashley already echoing the views that got Prejean in trouble last year, is she concerned that she may ruin her chances of taking home the tiara?
“That isn’t really the issue. I have a lot of friends that are gay, and … I have a lot of friends who have different views, and we share our views together,” she said. “There’s no hate between me and anyone.”
“You are an abomination unto the LORD and should die in agony for your disgusting unnatural behavior. Oooh, that’s such a nice sweater you’re wearing, what a lovely color!”
Still, as “Pop Tarts” reveals:
And according to the Miss California’s state director, Keith Lewis, a contestant’s personal opinion should have no bearing on the result.
“The Miss California USA system has always had a place for an individual’s thoughts and opinions when it comes to all sides of political issues,” Lewis told Pop Tarts. “It is an organization which empowers women, and everyone is entitled to their own beliefs.”
One wonders if the same would apply to a contestant who winsomely explained that she really does think the ancient Romans really had a point, and Christians should be made to fight lions at the 50 yard line of the Rose Bowl, immediately after being liberally smeared with bar-b-cue sauce.
