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It may seem odd that the profundity of Martin Niemoller could find a fitting application in the unlikely venue of a beauty pageant. But such is the depths to which America has descended as prominent members of its counterculture exercise ever-greater influence on society.

Niemoller, the German clergyman who warned of the consequences of passivity in the face of evil, lamented that he had done nothing while Hitler's Reich attacked and oppressed one target group after another within the overall population. Eventually, he became a target, but by then nobody was left to intervene for him. So it is that every concerned citizen must take note of the abominable proceedings of last week's "Miss USA" pageant, and rally to the support of Carrie Prejean, the intended victim.

Americans have not regarded beauty contests with any real seriousness for decades, usually dismissing them with wry cynicism. Noble sounding purposes notwithstanding, contestants are subjected to mass ogling, often clad in the material equivalent of a couple of handkerchiefs. And of course each will offer the customary hopes for world peace along with the necessity of feeding hungry children.

Claims that they are judged on their "character" and "poise" when rendering such platitudes are recognized by even the casual viewer as euphemisms for the requirement that they maintain seemingly perfect smiles throughout the ordeal, without showing any outward sign of the facial cramping that is surely taking place.

Yet something very different happened at this year's "Miss USA" affair. Mario Lavandeira, a homosexual activist pageant "judge" who goes by the pseudonym of "Perez Hilton," asked Carrie Prejean, Miss California, a direct question about her views on same-sex "marriage." She returned an equally direct and honest answer that was well thought out and expressed, but not "politically correct," explaining that marriage is between one man and one woman.

In response, he vindictively scored her with a zero, thereby costing her the competition. Since that time, all of the hounds of liberal Hell have been loosed upon her. The people of traditional America had better wake up to the sobering ramifications of this sorry episode. For unless such atrocious actions are confronted and rebuffed, even in so trivial a pursuit as a "beauty contest," her plight will eventually become our own.

For starters, consider the outright fraud and condescending sanctimony with which the news and entertainment media monolithically report the incident. Headlines and "news" accounts invariably characterized Prejean's answer as a "stumble," "gaffe," or "mistake," insinuating that her response was wholly and inherently wrong. In this manner, the media Mafia once again inserted its jaundiced liberal opinions in place of accurate reporting. The only "details" considered newsworthy focused strictly on those homosexual activists who claimed to be "offended" and outraged by her comments, portraying Lavandeira and his minions at the event as innocent and virtuous victims, rather than victimizers.

As is typical of the counterculture, the truth stands in stark contrast to all of this. Lavandeira has subsequently hurled profane verbal attacks against Prejean, and posted obscenely doctored pictures of her on his website. Even a brief look at his blog reveals an offensive and belligerent mindset, hardly the picture of alternative "family values" that he and his kind claim to be normalizing in America. Certainly his thinking would not be conducive to a healthy environment in which to rear the next generation of children.

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