Why Doesn't Perez Hilton Want to Be Quoted?

If there's nothing wrong with Perez Hilton's bashing of Carrie Prejean, why did he try to get a video containing his statements removed from YouTube?

Patterico uploaded the ad in question, and here it is:



Crooks and Liars says that its shill "destroyed" a National Organization for Marriage spokesperson, but the video supplied doesn't support this position. What it shows is a radical commentator trying to put words into the mouth of his interviewee, rather than staying with what the interviewee actually says. For example, David Shuster tries to repeatedly argue that legal scholars support gay marriage if religious exceptions are written into the laws. But this is disingenuous at best. In case after case, those objecting to homosexual marriage on religious grounds have been sued and lost in court. Why? Because the cases are brought on discrimination grounds, not religious ones. The argument presented is that it's "discrimination" not to allow gay marriages on church-owned property, because it might be a place of public accomodation.

Shuster then goes on to attack NOM for "not supporting" the entire Bible, as though pulling a quote from, say, Ezra, has anything to do with the topic at hand. Does it honestly matter whether Christians agree with the Apostle Paul when it concerns women's haircuts in order to oppose gay marriage from a biblical standpoint? Such arguments are ridiculous and disingenuous. Similarly, to argue that one must quote scholars at length (showing multiple sides to an issue) in order to use a quote for a 60 second ad is ridiculous. These same people didn't mind butchering quotes when it helps their cause.

The fact is, most Americans support traditional marriage. Carrie Prejean's statement about the subject is in line with that of most people in America. Yet, for that, she's been mocked, ridiculed and derided by people who supposedly care about the treatment of women in America. Many feminist blogs have been silent about the misogyny directed at Prejean (see this post, which links back to a couple of blogs discussing the outrageous behavior of gay rights activists concerning Prejean), confirming, yet again, that feminists only support women who hold the "right" opinions. Otherwise, you're going to hear women described as no less than dingbats, bimbos, and fake-boob sex betrayers.