Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Hot Topics: Search and Seizure & Miss America
The big legal news today is the USSC decision in Arizona v. Gant - which eviscerates the automatic vehicle search incident to arrest procedure adopted by law enforcement following the Belton decision 2o some years ago. The more sensational news is out of the Miss America Pagent where Miss California's answer to a question cost her the crown.
Here http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517137,00.html
is the story.
Pagent Judge Perez Hilton, an openly gay gossip blogger, asked, Miss California, Carrie Prejean, whether she believed in gay marriage. Prejean answered "...I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman..."
Prejean was asked a question and she gave an honest answer. She did not try to evade the question or to spew some equivocal hodgepodge designed to please everyone.
However, she has been criticized by many, including Keith Lewis, who runs the Miss California competition, who said, "As co-director of the Miss California USA, I am personally saddened and hurt that Miss California believes marriage rights belong only to a man and a woman... religious beliefs have no politics in the Miss California family."
WHAT?? PREJEAN DIDN'T CHOOSE QUESTION! The questions were all prescreened and six questions were selected to be submitted on a random basis to the 5 finalists. The fact is that Prejean is being crucified by the left because she gave an honest answer instead of the answer deemed by liberal extremists and gay activists to be the only correct answer. If there was only one acceptable answer, why allow the question? - Simply to continue to push the liberal agenda (which includes the destruction of traditional values, according to Chuck Schumer).
Here http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517137,00.html
is the story.
Pagent Judge Perez Hilton, an openly gay gossip blogger, asked, Miss California, Carrie Prejean, whether she believed in gay marriage. Prejean answered "...I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman..."
Prejean was asked a question and she gave an honest answer. She did not try to evade the question or to spew some equivocal hodgepodge designed to please everyone.
However, she has been criticized by many, including Keith Lewis, who runs the Miss California competition, who said, "As co-director of the Miss California USA, I am personally saddened and hurt that Miss California believes marriage rights belong only to a man and a woman... religious beliefs have no politics in the Miss California family."
WHAT?? PREJEAN DIDN'T CHOOSE QUESTION! The questions were all prescreened and six questions were selected to be submitted on a random basis to the 5 finalists. The fact is that Prejean is being crucified by the left because she gave an honest answer instead of the answer deemed by liberal extremists and gay activists to be the only correct answer. If there was only one acceptable answer, why allow the question? - Simply to continue to push the liberal agenda (which includes the destruction of traditional values, according to Chuck Schumer).
