You asked a question and you got some straight talk. Literally. Miss California is in favor of straight marriage, period. What did you expect? Sure, her answer had some blond hues to it ("opposite marriage"?) but expecting the girl to be such a politician in her answer is, quite frankly, playing with fire. And you got burned, sweetheart, in front of a few million people for expecting a nice, vague answer, or even an outright lie just to win the crown.
You additionally took to your own blogging powers to rip her a new one with profanity and fuel your own gossip story. A gossip blogger who has injected himself into the very environment that he enjoys skewering on a regular basis! How interesting. Perhaps you should be skewering yourself for taking issue with such an honest answer. You didn't expect that, did you? Feeling a little defensive? Now everyone's taking sides and getting their five minutes of press time on the issue, anxious to place themselves on either side of the rainbow-colored line. And whether you like it or not, both you and the lil' Miss are leading the charge; there is no controversy without yin and yang.
Frankly, I am tired of hearing that those who do not support particular agendas are horrible people. Why are we arguing about who's the bad person? Why are we sitting around pointing fingers and spinning ourselves in circles, making ourselves dizzy and sick with trying to keep the peace? There has to be a better way to approach controversy than with gossip, profanity and accusations. The girl wasn't even attacking anyone. She stated her opinion plainly and without telling Hilton that he might go to hell, or whatever reason she thought marriage is between a man and a woman. What is wrong with telling the truth about your opinion on something? Are only liberals entitled to that privilege? Everyone just says "whatever" when Miley Cyrus endorses gay marriage, but heaven forbid someone says nay. The media picks up on all the savagery and reports it in fine detail, down to the last droplet of blood that Hilton sucks from anyone's anti-gay propaganda, reducing naysayers to the basest, abusive and intolerant straight supremacists. Please. I'm sick of the drama.
Look at it this way: In both the United States and say, for example, Christianity and its branches, someone who murders is a bad person. The ideology that murderers are "bad" are the same in church and state, and we all agree that murderers are bad. But are gay people "bad"? Depends on where you look. The Bible says they're going to hell. The United States says nothing except that they are protected under their discrimination laws. Hey, a loophole!
Instead of arguing about gay marriage, there has to be a compromise that does not involve the religious aspect of marriage. Whether you like it or not, marriage has long been both a religious and public institution, and it puzzles me that we have not figured this out yet. Can we agree to separate church and state here? Can we agree to an institution of civil union that affords at least most of the benefits of being married with the exception of recognition from a religious institution? Look, if you've had a partner for 20 years and that partner falls ill, you should be able to see them in the hospital and be treated like next of kin. You should be able to share insurance policies and get yourselves taxed like crazy as a couple filing jointly (I still don't understand why gay folks would want this, though, because you do get dinged more than if you were filing separately).
Anyway, state and federal institutions that afford these kinds of privileges to married couples should be given to united couples, too. I think the concern is that if a state recognizes a gay union, they will expect religious institutions to recognize them, too. Those ideologies have to stay separate. I don't know what the implications will be if states begin to force churches to recognize these unions, because most churches will refuse. Who really thought they could persuade the Pope on the Catholic Church's stance on condoms? That's a bunch of wasted breath, people. Fight a war you might actually win.
