Pageant does not value free speech
A reader writes to Las Vegas Sun,
I am incensed by the shameful and hypocritical ranting by some of the judges of the Miss USA pageant concerning the stance against gay marriage voiced by Miss California, Carrie Prejean.
Amen to that. Those hypocrites pretend to support "equal rights" of everyone to marry anyone (or anything, for that matter) while denying Miss California her fundamental right to free speech. The day when we sacrifice one person's fundamental right for anyone else's ... privilege is the day when hell hath come on earth.
Mr. Trump, to his credit, tried to do some damage control by claiming that he respected Miss Prejean's opinion, but, well, he stopped short of vowing that he wouldn't invite such oppressive judges as Mr. Hilton in the future.