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Carrie Prejean Miss California Controversy | 05/05/2009 12:40 pm

Carrie Prejean Photos May Cost Her Miss California Title (Video)

According to MSNBC, Prejean’s contract prohibits her from being ‘photographed in a state of partial or total nudity.’
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
© AP

Will the topless photographs of Carrie Prejean that surfaced the Internet cost Miss California her title?

According to MSNBC, Prejean’s contract prohibits her from being "photographed in a state of partial or total nudity."

While Prejean insists the photographs were taken when she was 17 and were leaked to the Hollywood gossip website TheDirty.com just recently, the tabloid frenzy surrounding this can’t possibly be good for the beauty queen.

Since saying she opposes same-sex marriage at the Miss USA competition, Prejean has been the object of harsh criticism — but also garnered praise from conservative groups. Prejean also launched last week a television ad campaign with the National Organization for Marriage that showed her now-infamous response at the Miss USA competition.

Her answer, many speculate, cost her the Miss USA title. Will this latest controversy also hurt her?

Watch the MSNCB report:

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Martha Vinyard

Good grief!

The Vanessa Williams "Duck Call" Photo was much more egregious than this topless pic!

 

By Martha Vinyard on 05/05/2009 2:39 pm
DeBúrca obj
It’s not a matter of which was worse, it’s a matter of breaking a contract.
By DeBúrca obj on 05/05/2009 3:51 pm
Kelly In Texas

Here’s a pagent that requires women to parade around a stage on National television and is worried about a topless shot. Ah…ok….

And then there’s the people that scream about upholding a CONTRACT, but turn a blind eye when Obama publically denounces and attempts to void a legal CONTRACT…hmmmm….

By Kelly In Texas on 05/05/2009 9:12 pm
Amanda C

oh please kelly - you don’t care about any contract conservatives broke - the Geneva Conventions, the Kyoto treaty, ect… for you, it only depends on what political affiliation the person is. not if they are right or wrong.

By Amanda C on 05/06/2009 12:59 pm
Kelly In Texas

Lemon Tea…feel free to state your own opinions, but I will speak for myself.

I am concerned about a President that is NOW in office and attempting to strong arm regular Americans so that he can push the Unions into the prime seat…all for votes and paybacks. Obama is a liar and his administration is ignoring our own laws and punishing our own citizens.

So glad you asked…

By Kelly In Texas on 05/06/2009 8:45 pm
Amanda C

translation: you only care about things when they support and validate your prejudices.

your original comment was about keeping a contract - you don’t really care about the validity of contracts, since you, kelly, approve of defying international treaties. you praised bush for breaking them.

By Amanda C on 05/07/2009 7:08 am
Kelly In Texas

Lemon Tea…contracts are subject to any number of clauses. I do not consider a photo taken for a backless fashion shoot "nudity". However, if it was in fact taken for a magazine that was used for the purpose of displaying nudity….she should be thrown out. The question here seems to be is this was a fashion shot, or a display for nudity in some manner.

It is worth mentioning that one of the women associated with this pageant had been featured in Playboy. So…it does seem that there is some type of double standard there, not to mention the obvious mixed message.

I really don’t care if she goes or stays…this was all brought down upon her because she dared to say to the world, what most Americans believe…marriage is between a male and a female.

She was the brave one…the cowards are the mob that has attacked her because their pet project did not obtain public affirmation, by attempting to force a PC answer from her while dangling the crown before her face.

 

By Kelly In Texas on 05/07/2009 12:11 pm
Elle Troy
Kelly, question for you.  How does someone’s gay marriage affect your own relationships?   What is it about giving gays rights that has you feeling so threatened?  In what ways has Obama lied and strong-armed you personally?  How are you being punished?  What laws has the Obama administration ignored?  I’m expected a factual and reality-founded reply from you. 
By Elle Troy on 05/07/2009 10:12 am
Melinda Iley-Dohn

Yeah, I think that straight people have done quite a bit to destroy the insitution that they alone have been able to participate in. Marriage isn’t about the sexual preference. It’s about a person of the legal age of consent having the ability to live up to their vows and being able to respect and love their marriage partner. I took those vows nearly 16 years ago and still have a hyphenated name for a reason. This Vanna White wanna be should just retire the crown and pumps.  She is SO past her 15 seconds of fame.

By Melinda Iley-Dohn on 05/07/2009 2:49 pm
Amanda C

spot on, melinda.

gay marriages do nothing to hurt or help straight marriages - they are personal.

if anything has destroyed the sanctity of marriage, it’s divorce!

or those vegas-style wedding chapels.

or annullments when you get drunk and marry someone you don’t know.

what was that bible verse about the plank in your eye…?

By Amanda C on 05/07/2009 3:46 pm
Kelly In Texas

You know Elle…I don’t give one red hot hoot what it is that you expect from me.

Marriage is between a male and a female. Gays may have commitment ceremonies. Tradional marriage is heterosexual and that distinction should stay as such. Just as "Man of the Year" is reserved for a male…not too hard a concept to understand. Tradional marriage has a place in society as does commitment ceremonies.

I guess that this "threatened" issue is a big deal with gays…why would that be? Why would they want so desperately to feel as if they "threaten" people?….odd…Nope, I’m not threatened, just stating my opinion.

Obama has pushed through legislation that we the people have not agreed to. Many of our representatives were not given time to read the material. He has lied on so many issues that every day….what was news before is eclipsed by what he has done today.

Where are his goals and exit policies on Iraq, Afganistan, Pakistan. Where are the jobs. Why is small business money still going to giant corp. Cap and trade is a huge tax that he has lied to the public about, and it benefits his supporters…GE, MSNBC NBC. Going Green has not worked in other countries, it costs the citizens more. Only 3% of all green house gases are man made. Global warming is a natuarally occuring phenomena. Natioalization of our health care will ruin our standard of health as it has other countries. Bailout of banks and private corp. with government control. The list goes on and on….

The administration has made a money and power grab of the taxpayers, unlike anything that has ever occured before. He is out of control and over his head. He kept his real agenda quiet and called it simply "change" most voters had no idea what he had intended. ACORN was an abuse of voters registration with many illegal acts and implications.

If you want to ignore all of the things that this administration has done, then you live with it. But this is not politics as usual, this is an all out assult on the American that I call home. For the Obama supporters, I feel sorry that their optimism was used by him for his own agenda.

 

 

By Kelly In Texas on 05/07/2009 2:51 pm
Amanda C

the question was not "please define marriage", it was:

How does someone’s gay marriage affect your own relationships?  

What is it about giving gays rights that has you feeling so threatened?

By Amanda C on 05/07/2009 3:47 pm
Kelly In Texas

Lemon Tea…you are right! THAT WAS THE DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE!!! Glad that you recognized it…. I know that this is hard for you to understand, but…I will answer how I want to, when I want to and if I want to.

Gay marriage does not have to affect mine for me to know that marriage is between a male and a female. Gays in no way threaten me…there sex life is their own business.

 

By Kelly In Texas on 05/07/2009 4:45 pm
Amanda C
marriage is between two people who love one another.
By Amanda C on 05/08/2009 3:57 pm
Melinda Iley-Dohn

Some people remember when John Kerry, a Vietnam vet was insulted as being "un-patriotic" while George "Dubya" Bush, a man whose notorious choice to not complete his "contract" with the Texas Guard was ignored.So much for contracts. I didn’t hear the GOP scream about contracts with the auto workers had their salaries cut in half and the AIG VPs got huge bonuses.

It’s interesting to note that the man who got Bush his genetic "go to the head of the line" favor, for his Dad, a then Congress member, was none other than Ben Barnes, the Democratic Lt Governor who was IMPEACHED by a Democratic majority State Congresional vote and who was a part of the land speculation that destroyed Gibralter Savings duing the S&L scandal as a business partner to the late Former Governor John Connally who had become a Republican at the time.

Ah……Texas politics. You gotta love it Miss Instant Tea. My Sunday School teacher belonged the "Dirty Thirty". The Democrats have been known to clean house in Texas when it was required. Suffice it to say, your Texas pedigree is lost on me. I qualify to be a member of the Daughters of the Texas Republic. God bless Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards and Molly Ivans. REAL Texas women who had style and intelligence. 

By Melinda Iley-Dohn on 05/07/2009 2:40 pm