Common Read explor Roxane Gay article about Miss Ameri protts

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• PREJEAN: I WAS 'DETHRONED' FOR GAY MARRIAGE ANSWER
• COMMON READ EXPLOR ROXANE GAY ARTICLE ABOUT MISS AMERI PROTTS

PREJEAN: I WAS 'DETHRONED' FOR GAY MARRIAGE ANSWER

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COMMON READ EXPLOR ROXANE GAY ARTICLE ABOUT MISS AMERI PROTTS

June 12, 2009 — -- Former Miss California Carrie Prejean spoke out for the first time about her recent throng, sayg her crown was taken as a rult of her ments on gay marriage durg the Miss USA petn and not due to a ntract dispute as Miss California officials have claimed.

"This has nothg to do wh me agast any particular group or nothg to do wh me hatg gays or whatever, " Prejean told Fox News' Sean Hanny Thursday. "Ahead of the news nference, Prejean's mother, France, me out fense of her dghter, tellg the blog that the bety queen is "beg persecuted for speakg her opn" about gay marriage.

Jam Dobson that Satan tried to tempt her wh a qutn about gay marriage at the Miss USA the qutn-and-answer ssn om that pageant that thst her to the spotlight, Prejean's story has evolved so fast that 's hard to keep track of all the tails. Her answer alienated lns of gay and lbian Amerins, their fai and their supporters. "April 20: Prejean fends her ments via multiple media outlets and tells "Accs Hollywood" that her sister is a gay activist.

"My sister is a send litenant the Air Force and she is a gay rights activist, " Prejean says, addg that her sister is not gay. "She supports gay people, she supports gay marriage. "April 26: Prejean viss church, cludg San Diego's The Rock Church, which was active the mpaign to pass a nstutnal ban on gay marriag California last year, to tell her si of the pageant story.

She tells The Rock Church's ngregatn that pageant officials asked her to apologize to the gay 27: In rponse to Prejean's ments, Lewis issu a statement sayg, "Given the fact that Carrie Prejean's first act upon returng to California was to headle five servic at a church that promot homosexualy as both unnatural and abnormal, we stand by our ncern for her dividual image and look forward to a time the near future when she n put down her personal agenda and assume the rponsibili associated wh beg Miss California USA. "April 29: Prejean's sister Christa tells she was surprised the bety queen lled her a gay activist. I was kd of surprised that she mentned , but I thk she wanted to get the pot across that our fay is tolerant, " Christa Prejean says, addg that she only recently got volved gay rights 29: Shanna Moakler, former -executive director of the Miss California Miss USA pageant, nfirms reports that the Miss California anizatn paid for Prejean to get breast implants weeks before the Miss USA pageant.

The document prohibs whoever holds the tle of Miss California om makg personal appearanc, grantg terviews or makg mercials whout permissn om pageant officials and giv the pageant's directors the right to revoke her crown for breachg any of the document's 6: On "The View, " Tmp says Prejean's answer to the qutn of gay marriage posed durg the Miss USA pageant was not so far off base.