Freedom of Expression- Unless It's Not What They Want To Hear.

Can you believe this horseshit? At last night's Miss USA pageant, Miss California was asked a political bomb of a question: "Do you think every state should [adopt same sex marriage]? Why or why not?" This was her response:

"Well I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. Um, we live in a land that you can choose same sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and in, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman," Carrie said to a mix of boos and applause. "No offense to anybody out there. But that's how I was raised and that's how I think that it should be between a man and a woman."

She faced a reaction of boos and applause. She did not win. In the aftermath, Judge Perez Hilton, who posed the question, came up with this nugget:

"The way miss California answered her question lost her the crown, without a doubt! Never before that I'm aware of has a contestant been booed at Miss USA."

So was it that she chose the wrong answer or just the wrong reasoning. If the latter, then this is an indictment of her religion. If the former, what was the point of the question other than to set a trap? On a democratic level, her answer was politically correct: Americans do have the right to choose as individual states. The federal government is not involved in this issue, and I highly doubt anyone reading this (read: me only) will live to see the date where same sex marriage is enshrined as a fundamental civil right.