The Apple Conversion

Chanced upon the youtube video of the Miss California controversy¹ and just felt like blogging my 2 cents worth. (The SAT Essay question practice must be getting to me).

I shall not provide a background on what it was about, since any comment from my perspective is bound to be biased (at the very least) towards my views of the matter. So go watch it (link below) and draw your own conclusions if you have not already done so.

Bottom line, I think Perez Hilton is a royal ass. I did not come to that conclusion due to his sexual orientation, but rather his views on the response given by Miss California (Carrie Prejean). I’ve transcribed her response to his question verbatim below:

We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what, in my country, and in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be between a man and a woman.

To which, Perez (in a video blog post immediately after the show²) said it was ‘the worst answer in pageant history’, and that she was ‘booed’ for the answer she gave. In a skype call to MSNBC later³, he went on to say that her response ‘alienated millions of gays and lesbians, their families, their friends and supporters’. I’ve got a problem with this.

‘The worst answer in pageant history’? I honestly don’t think so. I’ve heard worst. But wait, my view / opinion on it not being the worst answer is not in line with Perez’s. So I guess in his eyes, I’m a B*******. But he’s entitled to his own opinion isn’t he. It’s just Miss California that isn’t entitled to her own opinions.

Then there’s the issue of the ‘booing’, of which I did not manage to hear in the clip as it (if there was ‘booing’ to begin with) was drowned out by the applause.

Finally, her response ‘alienated millions of gays …’. I don’t know how he got to this conclusion, but be it true or false, I believe this to be a Hasty Generalisation. Needless to say, I found the rest of his ramblings in that video to be just that, ramblings.

To sum things up, I feel his comments were completely uncalled for, vulgar and an embarrassment to the people of the US of A. Nonetheless, I do recognise his right to his own opinion, and while I disapprove of what he said, make no mistake about it that I will defend, to death, his right to say it. I just hope I don’t see his column appearing in my ‘Time’ magazine. Ever.

Here comes the disclaimer, just in case someone up there decides to throw some random charge at me for my post. The views expressed here are mine and mine alone. I do not have any problems with gays or lesbians. In fact, I’ve got a few gay and lesbian friends (who doesn’t in this day and age?) and I fully respect the choices they have made as their own. And thus ends my post.

¹ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XMvviFbkf0

² http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI1u6bZ39YE

³ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klT0aSRTuDQ

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