Real Beauty Finally Trumps Ugliness

by Eric Grignol · 2009-05-03 15:27:00 UTC
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Miss USA No H8

Now that "not-Miss USA" has taken her hate show on the road, three former beauty pageant contestants decided it was time to hit back. A new ad supporting gay rights and slamming Prop 8 shows that beautiful people on the outside can also be beautiful inside their hearts and minds as well -- instead of, well, close-minded and generally vacant. (Yeah, Carrie Prejean, we're talking about you.)

One of the three, Shanna Moakler, is the director of the Miss California USA pageant, who appears alongside Raquel Beezley and Taminko Nash, two former Miss California contestants). "I believe Prop 8 lead a campaign of confusion and never made clear what was being asked of the people," Moakler said in a statement to Usmagazine.com.

In response to Miss California going to Washington to launch a campaign to "help save marriage" because it's something "near and dear to [her] heart," one astute commenter on boston.com noted:

"If protecting traditional marriage is so dear to her heart, she would be better served finding a way to help the many straight couples who already have troubled marriages for reasons that have nothing to do with whether gay couples get married or not."

Hat tip to Sean for pointing us to this item (if you haven't seen his post buried in the comments section!), which goes to show again how straight allies who come to our defense are some of our best supporters.

Eric Grignol
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