Miss Beverly Hills 2010 Lauren Ashley is also speaking out in support of traditional nuptials.
"The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman. In Leviticus it says, 'If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.' The Bible is pretty black and white," Ashley told Pop Tarts.
"I feel like God himself created mankind and he loves everyone, and he has the best for everyone. If he says that having sex with someone of your same gender is going to bring death upon you, that's a pretty stern warning, and he knows more than we do about life."
Ashley, 23, will be representing Beverly Hills in the Miss California pageant in November. Her statements mirror former Miss California Carrie Prejean's answer to a question about same-sex marriage in last year's Miss USA pageant. At the time, Prejean said her answer opposing same sex marriage cost her the title.
But with the Miss California Pageant still months away, and Ashley already echoing the views that got Prejean in trouble last year, is she concerned that she may ruin her chances of taking home the tiara?
"That isn't really the issue. I have a lot of friends that are gay, and ... I have a lot of friends who have different views, and we share our views together," she said. "There's no hate between me and anyone."
And according to the Miss California's state director, Keith Lewis, a contestant's personal opinion should have no bearing on the result.
"The Miss California USA system has always had a place for an individual's thoughts and opinions when it comes to all sides of political issues," Lewis told Pop Tarts. "It is an organization which empowers women, and everyone is entitled to their own beliefs."
And while Ashley has yet to meet Carrie Prejean, she is certainly a big fan.
"The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman. In Leviticus it says, 'If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.' The Bible is pretty black and white," Ashley told Pop Tarts.
"I feel like God himself created mankind and he loves everyone, and he has the best for everyone. If he says that having sex with someone of your same gender is going to bring death upon you, that's a pretty stern warning, and he knows more than we do about life.
"That isn't really the issue. I have a lot of friends that are gay,
Right, because the sign of a true friendship is wanting that person dead.
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"Another aspect of the particulateness of the gene is that is does not grow senile; it is no more likely to die when it is a million years old than when it is only a hundred. It leaps from body to body in it's own way and for its own ends, abandoning a succession of mortal bodies before they sink in senility and death" -Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene p.34
"I feel like God himself created mankind and he loves everyone, and he has the best for everyone. If he says that having sex with someone of your same gender is going to bring death upon you, that's a pretty stern warning, and he knows more than we do about life."
"Another aspect of the particulateness of the gene is that is does not grow senile; it is no more likely to die when it is a million years old than when it is only a hundred. It leaps from body to body in it's own way and for its own ends, abandoning a succession of mortal bodies before they sink in senility and death" -Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene p.34
"I feel like God himself created mankind and he loves everyone, and he has the best for everyone. If he says that having sex with someone of your same gender is going to bring death upon you, that's a pretty stern warning, and he knows more than we do about life."
I don't even know if she realizes the huge ironic undertone in that sentence.
Did you mean God loving "everyone"? I think she really believes God does love "everyone", and warning us not to have gay sex is his way of showing it ("He knows best so it must be for your own good")?
The thing I don't get (maybe this is what you meant?) is why she thinks the "stern warning" is needed. Is it because gayness ruins god's celestial plan in esoteric ways we can't even begin to fathom, or is she simply saying you shouldn't do it because you'll be put to death one day by Christian zealots like her?
Babel wrote:I don't even know if she realizes the huge ironic undertone in that sentence.
Did you mean God loving "everyone"? I think she really believes God does love "everyone", and warning us not to have gay sex is his way of showing it ("He knows best so it must be for your own good")?
The thing I don't get (maybe this is what you meant?) is why she thinks the "stern warning" is needed. Is it because gayness ruins god's celestial plan in esoteric ways we can't even begin to fathom, or is she simply saying you shouldn't do it because you'll be put to death one day by Christian zealots like her?
In which case, yes...
The term 'everyone' implies none excluded, so that's the irony I was referring to. Their religious message is in essence contradicting itself.
BTW, bisexuals are, the most religious people out there. They can, literally, love everyone.
Whoa, she is not hot. Seriously, she's a ginger beauty queen with those chubby cheeks and freckly shoulders?
"The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman. In Leviticus it says, 'If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.' The Bible is pretty black and white," Ashley told Pop Tarts.
What a delightfully whimsical scene that interview must have been
