Sarah Palin and Miss California: A Match Made in Anti-LGBT Heaven

by Michael Jones · 2009-05-13 21:32:00 UTC
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PrejeanTurns out that Donald Trump isn't Miss California's biggest champion.  Nope, there's another tabloid superstar standing beside Miss California (real name Carrie Prejean), and her name former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Palin issued a statement Wednesday night standing up for Prejean, calling her a victim of the liberal media.  Blah.  Palin also repeated the Trumpster's line that Carrie Prejean's position on same-sex marriage is no different than President Barack Obama's or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's.

Of course, most of the scandal revolving around Miss California doesn't stem from her personal positions on same-sex marriage.  That may have given Carrie Prejean her first fifteen minutes, but the rest of her fame is totally owned by her and her total lapse of judgment in getting naked in front of a photographer.  Whatever.

What I find most interesting though is that Sarah Palin chooses to weigh in with a statement on Miss California, but manages to avoid talking about any bundle of other issues, from torture to the war in Afghanistan to health care to credit card legislation...and the list goes on and on.  Is that responsible leadership?  Or just trying to ride the bandwagon of the latest anti-LGBT and media sensation?

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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