Perez Hilton Needs To Grow Up

For those of you who don't know, Perez Hilton is an openly gay blogger and television personality. Being somewhat popular, he was chosen as a judge for the Miss America 2009 beauty pageant, which some would say is a stupid idea having an openly gay internet blogger as a judge for a female beauty pageant. Miss California, a finalist, was asked about her view on gay marriage during the question part of the pageant a question by Hilton, which can be seen here:



In response to this, Perez Hilton posted a vlog expressing his hate over not the answer in question, but Miss California as a person,, using colourful language to insult her, only because of her slight intolerance towards gay marriage, calling her answer the “the worst answer in pageant history”. Judging from the scoring and many interviews with the judges, this question alone cost her the competition, as she would have won if it wasn't for this question.

Now, honestly. This makes Hilton just as bad as Miss California. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and while Miss California disagreed with Hilton on gay marriage, she was very polite and as politically correct about it as she could possibly be without changing her opinion. She didn't attack gays. She didn't attack same-sex marriage. She answered the question exactly as it asked, “Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?”

The question WASN'T "Agree with my view on a very controversial issue or it'll cost you your hopes and dreams of becoming Miss America". Hell, even I don't agree with Prejean on her views on same-sex marriage, but that doesn't mean I'm going to hate her. That doesn't mean that I think she's a prejudiced, minority hating person. I'm not going to go ahead and whine on the internet about what she is. Why? Because she didn't spread any hate or prejudice whatsoever.

What did you expect, Hilton? Honestly, when you come from a right-wing, Catholic family, OF COURSE YOUR GOING TO BE AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE. Prejean GREW UP against gay marriage, but that doesn't necessarily mean she's prejudiced against gays. This makes YOU the intolerant one here, Hilton.

It's ironic, isn't it? The fact that Hilton is so greatly against any kind of intolerance towards gays that he himself is prejudiced against anyone who disagrees with his views.

Grow up, Hilton. Act your age, and stop being so hypocritical. EVERYONE is entitled to an opinion, and just as Miss California respects yours, you should respect hers.

Besides, that wasn't the worst answer in pageant history...



..this was

If you want to see Perez Hilton's video, here it is: