Miss Calif. Keeping Crown -- For Now

Miss Rhode Island And A Former Miss USA On Real Reasons Her Crown Is In Jeopardy

(CBS)  Officials of the Miss California USA pageant strongly criticized some of the actions of titleholder Carrie Prejean Monday but they didn’t take away her title.

Co-executive directors Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler told a press conference that only Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump can make that decision. He plans a news conference Tuesday morning in New York.

The officials said Prejean has been “unavailable” and so in the meantime they have appointed the state pageant's runner-up, Tami Farrell, as a “Beauty of California Ambassador” to fulfill any duties the winner normally would handle.

Lewis said that if Trump allows Prejean to retain her crown, state pageant officials would welcome her back and encourage her to take part in her normal duties.

Prejean, 21, of San Diego, created controversy during the Miss USA pageant when she answered a judge's question by saying she believes marriage should only be between a man and a woman.

The state pageant has been investigating whether she violated her contract by making public appearances with groups opposed to same-sex marriage. Prejean also failed to reveal that she posed in her underwear as a teenager.

Moakler said that women entering the pageant are given documents that require full disclosure, but they do not say that any disclosure will make the person ineligible.

Lewis said the state pageant has never criticized Prejean for her beliefs, but he added that Miss California USA must represent everyone in the state.

On The Early Show Monday, Miss Rhode Island, Alysha Castonguay, said she sees the remarks opposing same sex marriage as the main factor that could cost Prejean her crown. Prejean finished as runner-up in the Miss USA competition.

Castonguay -- who herself had semi-nude photos published in Maxim magazine --- photos she says were even racier than the ones helping to land Prejean in hot water -- says the one issue is "definitely" more equal than all the others hanging over Prejean.

"I think it's from the (anti-same-sex marriage) answer she gave that night onstage," Castonguay told co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez. "And, you know, I think everybody needs to be prepared to hear both ways that that question could have been answered. It was her opinion. And you have 51 individuals that compete for Mss USA. It's not Miss Robot USA. It's Miss USA. So, you have to be expected, if you ask that question, to get that answer both ways."

The racy pictures of Prejean probably aren't a factor in Prejean's fate, Castonguay said, noting, "Those pictures weren't published. If those pictures were never published of me in Maxim I don't know if I would have came forward with them, you know, and let them know that there were pictures out there. I wouldn't have thought that they would ever be published."

Chelsea Cooley Altman, who was Miss USA 2005, told Rodriguez the breast implants Prejean had and that the Miss California pageant helped pay for shouldn't be in focus. "When you have a state director," Altman said, "they really go out of their way to do whatever they can to prepare the girls to their best ability (for the Miss USA competition). "They don't promote having surgical implants of any kind. But if a title holder comes to them expressing the need and it's something that they genuinely desire, then the state director, I can imagine how they would want to go out of their way to help her, if this is something that she came to them for. I don't think it's something they went to her about. So I don't really think there's an issue there."

[globalcoolin]

I never met a woman yet who's views on gays (or what gays do) influenced their beauty! But on the other hand I've met a few whose support for gays was no doubt influenced by their terrible uglyness! But then, they could have been dudes doing some gay cross-dress thing.
Is a Blogger anything like a Community Organizer?

[Ichabod09]

Looks like I have found a troll with the multiple IDs of:

Python
TruthisLife1
Informed1
Stuart2560

[Ichabod09]

By the way, the Bible also says that women who wear red are harlots and should be stoned to death.

Posted by Ichabod09

Where?
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It does'nt say that anywhere in the Bible.
Posted by Stuart2560 at 9:17 PM : May 12, 2009
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Stuart you and I both know I never made the statement. Nice new ID you have. You are still one jealous byotch. Ms. California can get mean and you can't

[ladypirate2]

HusseinMalaise: If Perez Hilton had said the things about me that he said about Carrie Prejean he would be crying for real when he was slapped with the lawsuit that I would file against him!

[stupidrules3]

This is the most publicity that the Miss USA pageant has received in years. Donald Trump is loving it. He's betting that next year the ratings will be up by 30%. There is no way he is going to let Miss California get away because she is the meal ticket that will keep this dinosaur (pageant) alive for a few more years. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a panel of judges next year that include anti-pageant feminists, pedophiles, and rapists, not to mention Catholic priests.

[bradkt1]

I am not a conservative, but I do not support gay marriage either. The gay marriage question was a politically loaded question that has no place in a beauty pageant. Donald Trump made the corrrect decision that the photos were no big deal and he let her keep her crown.

With that said, I do think that she crossed the line when she allied herself with the anti-gay marriage advocacy group during her reign as Miss California. I do not believe that she should have been stripped of her crown, but she should be required to seperate herself from that group (or any other political advocacy group) during her reign if she wants to keep it.

[Ichabod09]

By the way, the Bible also says that women who wear red are harlots and should be stoned to death.

Posted by Ichabod09

Where?

I looked up every reference to harlots in the Bible and this is the closest passage, although I would not say it claims women wearing red are harlots. This is yet another example of people twisting words to attack.

3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Posted by gold_standard at 5:38 PM : May 11, 2009

Find the original post where I supposedly stated that. I did not make the statement. Someone has done a cut and paste with my ID

[globalcoolin]

why does this lady get caught in the squabble and not the pageant's organizers? The idiot who posed the question? There's more than one side here!
So is the pageant going to be reduced to BRAIN POLICING, live and on stage? And only gays permited the badges?
Very interesting!
Could it be this lady 's bare arms upset the First Lady?
Hmmm?
Well, the First Lady is showing us she don't have gang tattoos, needle marks or bruises--not that is disproves anything!
Liberal facism is all about tin badges and displays. Apperarences and sham.

[boatdocster]

This really sets a very bad precedent. It validates that some people can break rules and not be held accountable for their actions.

Other contestants revealed some nude photos to the pageant prior to the contest as required. Miss California did not and violated pageant rules, that was before the "question".

When she agreed to be part of a narrow focus commercial she again broke pageant rules by not notifying and getting approval from pageant officials first.

I have no problem with her faith or her answer to Hilton's question, but neither relieves of the signed contractual obligations she agreed to. To use her faith as "faux pax" shield for her bad choices, and then getting a free pass - just down right wrong.

[honestabe8]

fred: why do you feel that it is the place of the government to prohibit "immoral behavior"?

[honestabe8]

An immoral society falls under its own immorality.
Posted by fredfortherepublic

fred: wouldn't homosexuality being a moral issue imply that it is a choice? if so, when did you make your choice?

[fredfortherepublic]

If the press were truly doing what the press was intended to do, this young lady would not being roasted in the press. The media would be trying to determine who here accusers are and what their motive is.

This appears the creation of a smoke screen where the wrong (homosexuality) that was highlighted in truth is being ignored presently while the messenger is being demonized in the most "politically soft" method the spin doctors can produce. If her behavior was bad, it doesn't make homosexuality any better. If she did pose, she seems to be cleaning up her behavior. You cannot say the same of those who are defending immoral behavior and trying to make it legal.

An immoral society falls under its own immorality.

[fzy1hc]

She is entitled to her opinion the same as everybody else. I don't beleive in it to. So are the gay's going to the internet to fight back.

What happen to America and say what you want!!!!!

Give me a BREAK!!

[darth_dionysus]

Why do we even still have beauty pageants? They went out of style with platform shoes, leisure suits and bellbottoms. So why should it even matter what a contestant in one says? It certainly shouldn't drag on this long.

It's yesterday's news. Let it go.

[specialty8]

Let her alone, she is entitled to her opinion the same as everybody else.

[kesac4650]

She has to represent all the people of America, so if she were pro-Gay Marriage, she would be offending about 90% of us too.
Why was Perez hilton allowed to ask such a question? He wouldn't have been allowed to ask about her religion, or politics, now would he?

[honestabe8]

No law can make us like these low-lifes.
Posted by enjoylife63

Being against gay marriage is one thing. Calling people names is just low rent.

[ladypirate2]

molies74621: You are right! To me Perez Hilton acted just like a two year old having a tantrum when he didn't get the answer that he wanted! He should never be allowed to judge another beauty pageant again! She should also sue him for the filthy names that he called her on his website. I also agree with you. I don't see how her dad or her brothers kept from having a little confrontation with him that wouldn't have been pretty! Many men have had the crap beat out of them for names like he called her!

[nolies74621]

molies74621: A better way of saying what I just said is to say that just because Donald Trump owns the Miss USA pageant shouldn't mean that he should have carte blanche to do anything that he wants with it.


I agree. That question should have never been asked. It was asked by a G-ay Judge. What answer did he think he was going to get. I believe he wanted to use the question to gain favor for Gay marriage and it backfired on him and then he whined and cussed her like a little baby. Wahh. I tell you what, If she were my sister and he called her those filthy names, me and Mr Hilton would have a not so pleasant confrontation. It would'nt go well for him.

[ladypirate2]

molies74621: A better way of saying what I just said is to say that just because Donald Trump owns the Miss USA pageant shouldn't mean that he should have carte blanche to do anything that he wants with it.