Miss California Controversy (from Rumours)

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by jwd

You know Jason I don't even want to comment on that. It is just speculation as far as I'm concerned and is so far off topic from what the main issue is here. Whether or not Carrie Prejean retains her crown is of no consequence to me AT ALL. It's more a matter of free speech, civil discord, and civil rights to me.

1. The U.S. Const. only guarantees no govt. shall restrict the right to free speech - though even that right is limited to speech tending to incite a riot, etc. As for general free speech, no one has the right, etc., not to expect people to react to what they say and clearly she knew she was stepping in it. Have you ever known anyone in one of these things - they literally go into beauty boot camp for weeks. With that much money riding on it, there is no way she did not know that question was in the pot. It does not take much to connect the dots.

2. Again, if she had said "no offense, but I do not think blacks should marry whites" - would you be civil toward her? Even if you personally would be, I suggest the cast majority of people would not be. Maybe you do not connect the two, but many people see it that way.

3. Civil rights are being denied - that tends to piss people off.

P.S. I still think she blew him