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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Miss California not sorry for antigay marriage comment, said it cost her Miss USA title
Who knew a blogging queen and a beauty queen could spark such a controversy?
Miss California Carrie Prejean says her answer to a question about same-sex marriage Sunday, April 19, cost her the Miss USA pageant.
But you know what? She’s not sorry.
Openly gay gossip blogger Perez Hilton, a pageant judge and the self-proclaimed ‘Queen of all Media,’ asked Prejean if she thought same-sex marriage should be legalized in every state.
“We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage,” Prejean said. “And you know what, I think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised.”
Some in the audience cheered, but several others booed.
Read article about pageant here.
Hilton during a YouTube.com post later that night called Prejean a dumb b-word.
He said he would have snatched the tiara off of Prejean’s empty head if she would have won the title.
The blogger took back the b-word thing, but later took back his take back.
Prejean on Tuesday, April 21, told Today Show host Matt Lauer she spoke from her heart and for her God when she gave her answer.
She said her answer was not about being political correct, but was being biblically correct.
“I’m so proud of myself,” Prejean told today show host Matt Lauer. “I wouldn’t change a thing. I knew I had a purpose, and I don’t take back what I said.”
Hilton said Prejean should have keep her politics and religion to herself because Miss USA represents all Americans.
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Wedding day pics of Kettering model and tennis great surface
Photos said to be of Kettering native Brooklyn Decker just before her marriage Friday, April 17, to tennis great Andy Roddick have surfaced on the Internet.
In one of the photo, Decker, a Sports Illustrated model, adjusts her veil.
In another, Roddick, 26, swings a golf club.
Decker wore a white Vera Wang gown during the ceremony at Roddick’s Austin, Texas home.
Sir Elton John, a friend of Roddick’s, preformed.
Decker, 21, was born Brook Daniel Decker at Kettering Medical Center.
She lived in Madison Twp., outside Middletown, before the family moved to Charlotte, N.C.
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