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Contents:

• CARRIE PREJEAN: NO ONE IS BORN GAY
• A FORMERLY PROMENT GAY MARRIAGE OPPONENT IS NOW GOG ALL- ON ANTI-MASK OUTRAGE
• PREJEAN: I WAS 'DETHRONED' FOR GAY MARRIAGE ANSWER
• CARRIE PREJEAN SAYS ANSWER TO GAY MARRIAGE QUTN COST HER MISS USA CROWN
• MISS CALIFORNIA SPARKS OUTRAGE OVER GAY MARRIAGE REMARKS
• MISS USA NTROVERSY: CARRIE PREJEAN SAYS GAY MARRIAGE ANSWER ST CROWN, BUT SHE'D SAY AGA
• CARRIE PREJEAN GAY MARRIAGE AD AIRS (VIDEO) [UPDATED]
• CARRIE PREJEAN, MISS CALIFORNIA, LIK "OPPOSE MARRIAGE" BETTER THAN GAY MARRIAGE (VIDEO)
• MISS CALIFORNIA'S SISTER 'SURPRISED' BY 'GAY ACTIVIST' TLE
• CARRIE PREJEAN, THE FAMOLY ANTI-GAY BETY QUEEN, IS NOW A MAGA ANTI-MASKER
• RIGHT-WGERS TAKE BETY QUEEN TO THEIR HEARTS OVER ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE STANCE
• OPN: CARRIE PREJEAN TO VALU VOTER SUMM: ‘GOD CHOSE ME’ WH THE GAY-MARRIAGE QUTN

CARRIE PREJEAN: NO ONE IS BORN GAY

Anti-gay marriage supporter Miss California, Carrie Prejean, was fired and throned for breach of ntract, although the Miss USA pageant gu Donald Tmp told her she uld keep her job ls than a month ago.

Anti-gay marriage supporter Miss California, Carrie Prejean, was fired and throned for breach of ntract, although the Miss USA pageant gu Donald Tmp told her she uld keep her job ls than a month ago, Fox News reported. "Prejean ma headl durg the Miss USA pageant when celebry blogger Perez Hilton asked about her stance on gay marriage. Not only did Prejean e out as a vehemently anti same-sex marriage supporter who believ "oppose" marriage but also she teamed up wh the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage to promote an anti-gay marriage agenda.

The reigng Miss California’s answer to a qutn about gay marriage has prompted a number of stars to speak out on the topic, while her referenc to the bible have sparked a (hopefully healthy) bate among The Hollywood Gossip rears.

A FORMERLY PROMENT GAY MARRIAGE OPPONENT IS NOW GOG ALL- ON ANTI-MASK OUTRAGE

She don’t see gay marriage beg ma legal, on a natnal level, any time soon. People are not born gay.

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.

PREJEAN: I WAS 'DETHRONED' FOR GAY MARRIAGE ANSWER

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.

CARRIE PREJEAN SAYS ANSWER TO GAY MARRIAGE QUTN COST HER MISS USA CROWN

"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.

MISS CALIFORNIA SPARKS OUTRAGE OVER GAY MARRIAGE REMARKS

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. Jam Dobson that Satan tried to tempt her wh a qutn about gay marriage at the Miss USA 12: Donald Tmp announc Prejean will keep her 12: More photos of Prejean semi-nu emerge on, as posts new pictur of her and Olympic champn Michael Phelps.

MISS USA NTROVERSY: CARRIE PREJEAN SAYS GAY MARRIAGE ANSWER ST CROWN, BUT SHE'D SAY AGA

Miss California is not backg down om the answer regardg gay marriage she gave on Sunday night's Miss USA Prejean told that she had "no regrets" and was happy wh the answer she gave when a Miss USA judge, the gossip blogger Perez Hilton, asked about her stance on same-sex marriage.

"It is a very touchy subject and [Hilton] is a homosexual, and I see where he was g om and I see the dience would've wanted me to be more polilly rrect. Prejean also said that her sister, a send litenant the Uned Stat Air Force, and a supporter of gay marriage, was not offend by her answer. 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.

"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 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.

CARRIE PREJEAN GAY MARRIAGE AD AIRS (VIDEO) [UPDATED]

Further, she rmed the entertament se that her sister is a gay rights activist the Air Force.

Miss California Carrie Prejean is disappoted she didn't w the Miss USA pageant after her answer to qutn on gay marriage om blogger Perez Hilton sparked ntroversy, but says she's proud she stayed te to her beliefs and wouldn't change the rponse – even though she believ st her the crown. I prayed I would not be asked about gay marriage. [UPDATED, below][Via Ben Smh] Untentnally hilar anti-gay anizatn Natnal Organizatn for Marriage has ramped up their activi by enlistg the aid of Miss USA nttant Carrie Prejean, th unleashg the powerful fluence of people who lose bety pageants, which has tradnally been an awome force remappg polil thought Ameri.

CARRIE PREJEAN, MISS CALIFORNIA, LIK "OPPOSE MARRIAGE" BETTER THAN GAY MARRIAGE (VIDEO)

Neverthels, she n at least make the se NOM has hted at yet th far failed to elucidate -- that gay marriage do any sort of harm to anyone. Prejean has ma out like a band, thanks to gay marriage.

Gay marriage really is a risg ti that lifts all dghi. Meanwhile, the time sce the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage and Prejean stumbled to our liv wh so much slapstick, Brney Spears and Miley Cys have e out support of gay marriage, and public support for gay marriage has gone up ne pots. Prejean's "No offense to anybody out there" - the statement that give NOM their advertisement's name - rgs a ltle hollow, given that NOM board member Orson Stt Card actually advot makg homosexualy a crimal offense:Laws agast homosexual behavr should rema on the books, not to be discrimately enforced agast anyone who happens to be ught vlatg them, but to be ed when necsary to send a clear msage that those whoflagrantly vlate society's regulatn of sexual behavr nnot be permted to rema as acceptable, equal cizens wh that society.

So how do a bety queen turn to the poster child agast gay marriage? In the se of Miss California Carrie Prejean, the answer may lie an ugly divorce that may have cemented her views on gay relatnships. Carrie's parents filed for divorce 1988 and the divorce and ctody fights went on for more than a -- was a divorce filled wh homosexual allegatns hurled by both sis.

MISS CALIFORNIA'S SISTER 'SURPRISED' BY 'GAY ACTIVIST' TLE

Prejean acced me, ont of our dghter, of homosexualy. The papers also quote a urt-appoted doctor who said "The mother qutned [wh hearg of the girls] whether [her father] was a homosexual or had a homosexual roommate. Carrie's mom says the "gay" allegatns went both ways.

In urt papers dated May 16, 2000, a report om the urt-appoted unselor says "The mother also alleg the father told the girls their stepfather was gay, that all men wh mtach are gay. " The father's rponse: "The father acknowledg talkg wh the girls about the stepfather's brother beg gay, not the stepfather. So do Carrie believe gays broke up her parents' marriage?

CARRIE PREJEAN, THE FAMOLY ANTI-GAY BETY QUEEN, IS NOW A MAGA ANTI-MASKER

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.

RIGHT-WGERS TAKE BETY QUEEN TO THEIR HEARTS OVER ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE STANCE

It is a very touchy subject and he [Perez] is a homosexual and I see where he was g om and I see the dience would've wanted me to be more polilly rrect. The real highlight of the event was Carrie Prejean, Miss California, beg qutned by judge Perez Hilton about gay marriage.

"UPDATE 2:15p: Carrie Prejean went on the "Billy Bh Show" today and told the host that her sister is a "gay rights activist. " She's not gay but she "supports gay people, she supports gay marriage. 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.

OPN: CARRIE PREJEAN TO VALU VOTER SUMM: ‘GOD CHOSE ME’ WH THE GAY-MARRIAGE QUTN

April 29, 2009 — -- More than a week after Miss California Carrie Prejean spoke out agast "oppose marriage" at the 2009 Miss USA Pageant, her "gay activist" sister is g to her fense and lashg out at Perez Hilton, judge who qutned Prejean about gay marriage durg the petn and subsequently bashed her on his blog. "At the pageant, Prejean seemed ially tongue-tied answerg to Hilton's qutn before sayg that marriage should be between a man and a woman, drawg a mixed reactn om the dience and a look of thly veiled disgt om the days afterward, Prejean attempted to quell cricism of her nservative marriage views by sayg that her sister is a gay activist. "My sister is a send litenant the Air Force and she is a gay rights activist, " Prejean told "Accs Hollywood" last week, addg that Christa is not gay.

"Christa Prejean, 22, admted she was surprised to hear the bety queen, 21, ll 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 said, addg that she only recently got volved gay rights activism.