So after making a big production of support for Miss California Carrie Prejean, Trump has fired her anyway, claiming she is not living up to her contractual obligations.

She and her attorney dispute that and claim to have an E paper trail supporting her.  She claims this is the final punishment for her gay marriage comments.

Maybe.

If so, if Trump and the pageant industry was trying to appease Perez Hilton and the gay community, they may not have gotten much traction on that as the new Miss California, Tami Farrell seems to be of similar mind.

New Miss California: Marriage between man, woman

Tami Farrell: ‘The right thing to do is let the voters decide’

Tami Farrell, the newly crowned beauty queen who is replacing the ousted Carrie Prejean as Miss California, apparently holds the same view as her predecessor, Carrie Prejean, and President Obama that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Fox News host Neil Cavuto asked Farrell, who is Christian, on his show today:

“[Prejean] went out and said that a marriage is between a man and a woman. Do you share that view?”

Farrell responded in the affirmative with a simple, “Uh huh.”

“You do, OK,” said Cavuto.

Farrell quickly added: “I don’t think that I have the right or anybody has a right to tell somebody who they can or can’t love. And I think that this is a civil rights issue. And I think that the right thing to do is let the voters decide.”

Hot Air correctly points out that her answer is hardly as strong as Prejean’s:

Ah, the irony. If only it were true. The transcript makes it sound like she agrees with Cavuto when he suggests marriage is for straights only, but after watching the clip it looks to me like she’s vacantly trying to come up with the most politic response possible. Skip ahead to 2:55. She does say “mm hmm” when he asks her, but it’s almost as if she didn’t hear the question, especially given how quickly she moves to qualify her answer.

But at the same time I think her answer correctly separates this into several issues. 

Is this an issue of controlling behavior?  Of granting rights?  Of civil or social institutions?

One of the things the gay rights groups are trying to do is dumb down the discussion and remove all the various nuances.  We need frank discussion of what this means, but we need to do it from all angles.

And in the end, she gets the final word on the reality of the answer:

Farrell’s response: “You know, I think it’s hilarious right now that the world is turning to beauty queens for the answers for this. I think it’s an important issue and I think that it’s one that I don’t think I can win a battle. I don’t want to be any more divisive than it’s already become.”

Uh huh.

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