The Political Whore

By Lorna Bracewell
PoHo contributor

In a recent blog posting, Nadine Smith, Equality Florida’s executive director, issued a formidable challenge to GLBT people everywhere: If you want equality, sacrifice for it. With the bus boycotts and lunch counter sit-ins of the black civil rights movement as her inspiration, Smith asks “What can we (GLBT people) do that demonstrates not only the rhetoric of equality but the personal sacrifice that will awaken the conscience of a nation?”

Smith answers this question with a simple suggestion:

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So even before my first cuppa this morning I am subjected to a live Today Show interview with beauty queen aspirant Carrie Prejean, the Miss California entrant who believes that celebrity blogger and out-gay Perez Hilton cost her the Miss USA title with his query about same-sex marriage.

So giving her the benefit of the doubt at that time, Prejean was a very bad question-answerer.

Now, however, we have confirmation that she is a bonafide gay hater. Prejean is part of an anti-gay-marriage advertisement being unveiled today by a national anti-gay group. It won’t embed, so you have to check it out here. Politico reports:

The anti-same-sex marriage National Organization for Marriage is trying to turn the tables on gay rights activists this morning with a new ad accusing them of attacking Miss USA contestant Carrie Prejean for opposing gay marriage.

The ad … will be released at a press conference with Prejean — the new star of that movement — today in Washington, D.C.

Video of Prejean on Fox News right after the pageant after the jump.

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By Ben Luongo
PoHo contributor

Ben Luongo is a USF political science graduate student. He will be graduating this spring.

Several hundred protesters took to the streets in San Francisco last week during a court hearing on Proposition 8, the amendment to the California Constitution that restricts same-sex marriage. Prop 8 was voted on in Nov. 2008 and followed a ruling in May that overturned restrictions on same-sex marriage. After that, California was in the business of marrying same-sex couples. This of course changed when California voted on Proposition 8 with 52 percent in favor of banning same-sex marriages. Now the court will have to rule on the validity of Prop 8.

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