Idiot Gay Blogger Did a Big Favor For the Traditional Marriage Movement

Perez Hilton's now infamous question about gay marriage to Miss California, and his petulant, classless response to her answer, has actually done more to stop gay marriage than anything I can think of. He's put a face (and a pretty one) to the traditional marriage supporters (replacing the Mormons and Rick Warren), and has given the pro-gay marriage side his own mug as a standard bearer. Thanks, moron! You've just done us all a big favor.

Allahpundit has similar thoughts:

Good lord. Between her beauty, her stand on principle, and her serenity after such a crushing disappointment, even I’m ready to convert. Lauer clearly seems sympathetic to her, too. Maggie Gallagher’s right: This is a PR bonanza for gay-marriage opponents, and the stupider and nastier Perez “dumb bitch” Hilton gets, the bigger the bonanza is. Last night he whined to Larry King that she should have been more politically correct while insisting that he didn’t hold her position on gay marriage against her; here he complains that she should have left her politics out of an answer to an overtly political question and punctuates it with “I don’t want her talking about Jesus, Jesus, Jesus because that’s offensive to all of the Jewish-Americans,” etc. Which makes me think his issue with her might in fact be mostly about Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Note to future pageant contestants: No believers allowed. Too “uninclusive.”

Hilton's idiotic answers certainly make it sound like this was all one big set-up. Get the Christian girl to renounce her faith on national TV. Kind of blew up on you, didn't it Perez?

And Hilton wasn't the only judge who thought Perjean gave the "wrong" answer (from The Moveable Buffet):

If you had any doubt that Miss California, Carrie Prejean, lost the crown, if indeed she ever had a chance to win it, with her answer to Perez Hilton's question about states legalizing gay marriage, then read fellow judge Alicia Jacobs' account of her voting. After hearing the answer, Jacobs, a former Miss Nevada USA, writes on her blog, "if I could have made her 51st runner-up, I would have." In a blog item titled "Pretty is as pretty does," Jacobs offers a behind-the-scenes account of the judges and pageant officials involved. Included is Jacobs' account of her reaction as she heard the answer:

"As she continued to speak, I saw the crown move further & further away from her. When she finished, she looked strangely proud for a moment. Personally, I was STUNNED on several levels. First, how could this young woman NOT know her audience and judges? Let's not forget that the person asking the question is an openly gay man, at least 2 people on the judges panel are openly gay. Another judge has a sister in a gay marriage. Her very own state pageant director, KEITH LEWIS is an openly gay man who has been a very generous benefactor of hers...in many ways. (2 ways in particular....if you get my drift??) Did I mention I was STUNNED?"

Ah, but she did know her audience and it wasn't the people in the room. That's why she answered the way she did. Think about it.

By the way, a lot of bloggers have noted that there was no outrage, invective, or obscenities hurled against either Barack Obama or Joe Biden when both said they did not support gay marriage.