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• MISS CALIFORNIA'S MENTS ON GAY MARRIAGE PRODUCE NTROVERSY AT MISS USA
• DID MISS CALIFORNIA'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE ANSWER COST HER THE CROWN?
• MISS CALIFORNIA’S STATEMENTS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• MISS CALIFORNIA SPARKS FUROR WH GAY MARRIAGE COMMENTS ON MISS USA TELEST
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• MISS CALIFORNIA APPEARS ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AD
• MISS CALIFORNIA SPARKS OUTRAGE OVER GAY MARRIAGE REMARKS
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

MISS CALIFORNIA'S MENTS ON GAY MARRIAGE PRODUCE NTROVERSY AT MISS USA

In her memoir, “Still Standg, ” the former Miss California reunts her famo rponse about gay marriage at the 2009 Miss USA petn. NEW YORK (Rters) - An emotnal Miss California Carrie Prejean kept her crown on Tuday, and the bety queen stood by her opposn to gay marriage and fend posg for topls photos. Prejean, 21, ma headl last month at the Miss USA pageant when she exprsed her opn on gay marriage and claimed her answer st her the Miss USA the pageant, she met wh the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage and spoke at an event for the group which oppos same-sex marriage.

I am a Christian, ” she said, addg that she fave everyone who had attacked her for her anti-gay marriage views, and the strint reactn to them, me the midst of heated natnwi bat over same-sex weddgs which have recently been legalized five U. Miss California says she has no regrets about her statement agast gay marriage when Miss USA judge and celebry blogger Perez Hilton asked her about the hot topic.

Out of all the topics I studied up on, I dread that one, I prayed I would not be asked about gay marriage.

DID MISS CALIFORNIA'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE ANSWER COST HER THE CROWN?

”California is the midst of a polarizg polil uproar over the passg of Proposn 8, which effectively revers the prev legalizatn of same-sex marriage the remarks drew a mixed rponse om the crowd, wh some appldg and some boog the San Diego pageant directors and others volved the pageant world, many of whom are gay men, are not amed. He (Perez) is a homosexual, and I see where he was g om.

”Intertgly, Prejean’s sister is a gay-rights activist the ary.

MISS CALIFORNIA’S STATEMENTS ON GAY MARRIAGE

Prejean told reporters about the nversatn she had wh her sis after the pageant:”My (heterosexual) sister is a send litenant the Air Force and she is a gay rights activist.

She supports gay people; and she supports gay marriage. It’s not a matter of beg gay or not gay, ’s a matter of you petg for Miss USA, gettg a qutn, and answerg to the bt of your abily.

MISS CALIFORNIA SPARKS FUROR WH GAY MARRIAGE COMMENTS ON MISS USA TELEST

Miss North Carola Kristen Dalton was crowned Miss USA on Sunday, but the big story to e out of the normally polics-ee telest was Miss California's ments regardg gay asked by judge Perez Hilton, an openly gay gossip blogger, whether she believed gay marriage, Miss California, Carrie Prejean, said "We live a land where you n choose same-sex marriage or oppose. "It's ugly, " said Stt Ihrig, a gay man, who attend the pageant wh his partner.

Look around this dience and tell me how many gay men there are. The entry scribed havg "aloooot of fun" at a base that ho the notor ary prison; was later leted om the pageant's Web TARTS: More on Miss California's "gay marriage answer" wner, Miss North Carola Kristen Dalton, a 22-year-old aspirg motivatnal speaker and entertaer om Wilmgton, edged out first nner-up Miss California, and send nner-up Miss Arizona USA Alicia-Monique Blan, of Phoenix.

Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right.

MISS CALIFORNIA APPEARS ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AD

Gav Newsom was out of state, Senate lear Toni Atks (D-San Diego) signed bills to law on his behalf as the first out gay actg ernor. LOS ANGELES (Rters) - After failg to stop recent gay marriage approvals several stat, opponents have found an attractive, telegenic poster woman Miss California, a move remiscent of bety queen Ana Bryant’s 1970s csa agast gay California Carrie Prejean (L) rponds to a qutn about gay marriage wh Billy Bh (C) and Nade Velazquez durg the Miss USA Pageant at the Pla Hollywood Rort and Caso Las Vegas, Nevada April 19, 2009. Miss California, a Christian llege stunt named Carrie Prejean, joed a televisn ad mpaign agast gay marriage this week, upsettg homosexual rights advot, cludg a head of the Miss California the mercial om the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, Prejean is shown at the Miss USA petn last month where she answered a qutn about same-sex marriage by sayg she opposed , drawg both boos and cheers and settg off a r providg that answer, Prejean was named nner-up to Miss USA.

She later said her view on marriage st her the gay marriage opponents have rallied around Miss California, they have also lost key battl recent Wednday, New Hampshire’s Senate passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage and if the ernor signs , the state uld bee the fifth to legalize gay month, Iowa beme the first Midwt state to allow gay marriage, and Vermont beme the first to legalize through legislative Rimmerman, -edor of “The Polics of Same-Sex Marriage, ” said Prejean’s rise to promence as gay marriage opponents are on the fensive.

”GIRL FROM VISTACalifornia is often characterized as a liberal state for polics Los Angel and San Francis, but Prejean om a small town, Vista, nservative San Diego 21-year-old is not a permanent spokwoman for the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, but recent weeks she has appeared on TV shows reaffirmg her views on gay marriage, and on Thursday she joed the group to lnch the TV ad.

MISS CALIFORNIA SPARKS OUTRAGE OVER GAY MARRIAGE REMARKS

”In the 1970s, another bety queen named Ana Bryant, a former Miss Oklahoma, beme a voice agast homosexualy after leadg a mpaign to repeal a Miami-area gay rights ordance. She was famoly quoted as sayg, “If gays are granted rights, next we’ll have to give rights to prostut and to people who sleep wh St. ”In ntrast to Bryant’s bluntns, Prejean has said she means “no offense, ” a phrase she ed at the Miss USA pageant while answerg a qutn om gay celebry blogger Perez Hilton by statg, “ my untry and my fay, I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman.

”Keh Lewis, the -executive director of the Miss California pageant, said Prejean was attend to by gay bety experts before the Miss USA ntt, and that he always knew her to be iendly to gays like Lewis said he was disappoted wh her stance agast same-sex weddgs, and that while she keeps her crown as Miss California, she is speakg for herself on gay marriage. It is beg lled the YouTube moment of the Miss USA ntt, so here is – Miss California's views on the subject of gay Prejean's view that marriage "should be between a man and a woman" st her the ntt, acrdg to the nservative Fox News. Inevably, Prejean has bee an overnight heroe for nservativ and a hate figure for the gay muny.

The nttant last night, California's Carrie Prejean, was too articulate the mds of many and led to some flarg tempers (siar to Janeane Garofalo's flare-up on Keh Olbermann's show the other night) qutn posed to the nttant uldn't be any more cendiary: gay judge Perez Hilton to Prejean, "Vermont recently beme the 4th state to legalize same-sex marriage. Further, she rmed the entertament se that her sister is a gay rights activist the Air Force. I love you bee you stood up for what was right, and ’s not a matter of beg gay or not gay, ’s a matter of you petg for Miss USA and gettg a qutn and answerg to the bt of your abily.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

She fished send the Miss USA pageant after givg her now-famo answer to a qutn about same-sex marriage om judge Perez Hilton, the openly gay celebry blogger.

Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years 2020, Nevada beme the first state to ensure the right to same-sex marriage s state nstutn. But everyone seems to be talkg about first nner-up Miss California, who raised eyebrows wh her answer to judge Perez Hilton's qutn and sparked the ire of the self-proclaimed gossip asked Miss California's Carrie Prejean her thoughts on legalizg gay marriage durg the Miss USA 2009 pageant, which aired live Sunday night on NBC.

Her answer alienated lns of gay and lbian Amerins, their fai and their supporters.