Posted by: ST on May 6, 2009 at 7:47 pm
For those wondering, the term “Gay Gestapo” was coined by classical liberal and lesbian blogger Tammy Bruce to describe radical, militant groups of liberal gay people who are completely intolerant of people who disagree with their views on gay issues.
All of you are familiar with the controversy surrounding Miss California, Carrie Prejean, and her declaration during the Miss USA pageant that she was believed marriage should be between a man and a woman. The moron who asked her her opinion on gay marriage was celebrity liberal gay blogger Perez Hilton, an icon in the gay community. Prejean believes she lost her chance to be crowned Miss USA and Hilton is saying the same, although it’s impossible to tell whether its true, because you can’t believe a thing that comes out of the mouth of Hilton – and Ms. Prejean, naturally, is going to believe for the rest of her life that it was the reason she didn’twin the contest because of the controversy her answer generated after the fact.
Unfortunately for Prejean, the hits just haven’t stopped coming. Since she gave her answer on gay marriage on a national stage, she’s been targeted for destruction by the Gay Gestapo and their supporters in an effort to destroy her for not giving the “correct” answer on gay marriage. Just today, “compromising” photos of Prejean surfaced on Internet, which Hilton gleefully reports may cost her her Miss California crown due to a potential violation of the contract she signed last year before competing in the state pageant. Show of hands how many of you believe these photos would have mysteriously surfaced had she given the “correct” answer on gay marriage?
I didn’t think so.
Again, as I asked when the disgusting video of Keith Olbermann and popular gay columnist Michael Musto surfaced in which they both engaged in rank “humor” by making fun of Miss Prejean over her breast implants, and made other derogatory statements based on her sex, where’s the outrage from the feminist establishment? Why aren’t feminists – in particular, gender feminists – standing up for this women? Equity feminists such as myself are. The answer? Prejean gave a politically incorrect answer, and for that she must pay.
We might be talking about a beauty contestant here, but none of the people taking potshots at Prejean are beauty pageant judges – and beauty pageants are about more than just beauty anyway, so the cracks made about her looks in the context they’re being made in are totally out of line. The shots taken at this woman are being made on her because of her sex AND because of the fact that she gave an answer on gay marriage that caused the perpetually “outraged” in the gay community to become even more “outraged.” Her answer was a “call to arms” – and from that point forward it was all about making an example out of her, to show other opponents of gay marriage just what will happen if you don’t fall in line and start supporting gay marriage. We saw this after Prop 8 passed in CA, and we’re seeing it again now.
I’ve read elsewhere liberals suggesting that this is “what conservatives get” for their campaigns against the Dixie Chicks. That’s BS. The Dixie Chicks were criticized because they made their comments on foreign soil just days before the US went to war with Iraq. They would have been criticized here too, but not to the extent they were for dissing, on foreign soil, their country at a time when it was preparing to go to war. That is something you just don’t do.
In any event, once again, the evidence continues to pile up for all to see: Far from being “open” to differing viewpoints, certain leftists in this country will say and do whatever it takes to shut those opposing opinions down.
“Tolerant” my a**.
Related: Iowahawk has a revealing photo of another prominent opponent of gay marriage.
Yes, this situation is certainly getting out of hand.
When I first say the video of Olbermann and Musto I couldn’t quite believe what I was hearing. I knew Olbermann was a crazy liberal, but never did I suspect he was so vile.
The book “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg about sums it all up. Conservatives don’t get their way, they try to reason, discourse and use the popular opinion to pass a law.
Liberals don’t get their way they bully, threaten and deride others, rant in public, character assassinate their victims, profane all honored institutions, ridicule human nature, and blackmail judges to rule laws unconstitutional.
Can we win?
I take great comfort in Plato’s suggestion that we already have.
“Show of hands how many of you believe these photos would have mysteriously surfaced had she given the “correct” answer on gay marriage?”
I would strongly suspect that, had she been crowned Miss USA, those pictures would still have surfaced. Of course, the only reason they’re doing so now can probably be attributed to this controversy…
It is fascinating how the President’s opposition to same sex marriage is always carefully played down by those who play up everything else he (supposedly) stands for.
If anybody had talked about a gay like this publicly some attorney general somewhere would have been trying to slap hate crime charges agianst them
Hah! I didn’t know that Michael Musto was gay. I just knew he was a scuzzball.
This is a disgusting smear campaign . That picture of Carrie could hardly be called nude in California were a “g” sting is considered formal wear. There is enough material in her underwear to make 3 pageant bikinis. And there’s certainly a lot more flesh showing on that pageant stage. All of these girls are interested in a modeling career (this hardly qualifies them for brain surgery). Everyone of those girls likely has a photo portfolio. This is just a sleazy smear campaign directed by Mr. Lewis and the former bikini strutting Shanna Moakler. It just takes a smear campaign backed by big money to make a back-room deal with some unscrupulous photographer. I’ve seen pictures of Carrie at a food drive in 2004 and it sure looks like the Carrie in those photos. What is the legal term for posting a so called nude photo of a minor??
The “feminists” aren’t going to do anything. Since they are a tool of the far left with no values of any kind. Carrie Prejean has values and the left has no room for real values of any kind.
It used to be that taking a stand was a good thing, even admirable. Now it makes one a target for every nutcase group on the planet.
I will grant you that I think things are starting to go too far. I really could care less about this woman and I am really getting sick of hearing about all of it.
That being said, it’s a stretch to be blaming gay people for having those pictures surface. Gay people didn’t strip her down and force her to take those pictures. She did it of her own volition. She should deal with the consequences. Isn’t that what conservatives (and Ms. Prejean herself) constantly tell gay people–just shut up about being persecuted because you chose to be gay??
I’m pretty sure the photos would have come out regardless. That sort of thing happens all the time with beaty pagents. Anyone remember Vanessa Williams?
I don’t think most feminists like miss USA (or the contestants) to begin with. I, for one, find the whole concept silly.
… As for prejean, I could care less. I don’t have any interest in her political views, or in retaliation, or in the ‘fairness’ of the crown…. the whole thing is stupid.