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Dan Savage and Carrie Prejean

Jondm Wrote: May 05, 2012 9:02 AM
Hilarious. You attack Dan Savage for bad manners and consider yourself Emily Post. But as Dan Savage is not only right on the facts but actually full of more love for mankind (straight and gay) than you are, I think this defines much ado about nothing. You may know how to raise your pinkie while drinking tea, but Dan loves your gay son more than you do.

A few years ago, beauty queen Carrie Prejean innocently answered a question about gay marriage with a polite 'no.' She was viciously personally attacked by Miss USA pageant judge Perez Hilton, who posted a video of himself cursing at her.

Prejean was eventually stripped of her crown, and as for Perez Hilton? 'I'd love to have him back,' pageant owner Donald Trump once said. 'I mean, I'd love to have him back' -- although he didn't actually do it.

That was a seminal moment for American culture wars. Nobody could protect Prejean, while Hilton suffered no visible consequences for his grotesque...

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