Bigotry Apparently Qualifies You To Be A Presenter At The Dove Awards
Carrie Prejean, the runner-up at Donald Trump’s Miss USA beauty pageant the other night, was added to the presenter roster for tonight’s Dove Awards, which celebrate the best and the brightest of the Christian music industry. What would qualify her to hand out an award tonight? Well, she did go to a Christian college. And she volunteers with the Special Olympics! Oh yeah, she also stammered through an anti-gay marriage rant during the Q & A portion of Sunday night’s competition, and since she wasn’t awarded the crown on the spot after her answer the right wants to hold her up as an example of anti-Christian bigotry. Even though she seriously used the phrase “opposite marriage” to talk about her preferred sort of nuptial pairings.
I know Miss USA isn’t about anything like “talent” or “IQ scores” or “being able to walk and chew gum at the same time,” but don’t beauty pageant contestants go through some sort of public-speaking training? Anyway, here’s the obligatory “no, really, she’s important” statement from a Dove Awards mucky-muck:“She apparently answered in a particular way as a person of faith,” says Brad Siegel, vice chairman of Gospel Music Channel. “For the show, having a person of faith who has gone as far as she went in the Miss USA pageant who has high celebrity and who is a big fan of Christian music is a great reason to have her be a presenter.”
“High celebrity”–for now, anyway. (Talk to Chris Sligh–also appearing on tonight’s telecast–about how fleeting that can be!) And you know what makes this even worse? It gives the ever-awful Perez Hilton yet another reason to get all self-righteous about how he believes in “equality” and engage in always-effective Twitter activism* to prove his point, even though his rise to fame was pretty much the result of his practicing barely literate misogyny (and bad MS Paint skills) day in and day out for years and years. Yay, America! Please shoot me. Miss California Carrie Prejean scheduled for Dove Awards [The Tennessean] [Pic via Miss California USA]
* Can we call it “twativism”? Please?
