Posted on 01/07/2011 9:35:19 AM PST by presidio9
Leave it to a New Yorker to shake things up at the Miss America Pageant.
Instead of sticking to something safe, Miss New York Claire Buffie will be championing gay rights as part of her campaign to become the next Miss America.
Never in the 90-year history of the pageant has a contestant gone to bat for gays. And the 24-year-old brunette knows she's taking a risk with her "Straight for Equality: Let's Talk" platform.
But this, she says, is the civil rights struggle of her generation.
"Miss America is looking for a woman who is intelligent, has a vision and is compassionate about making change," she told the Daily News.
Born and raised in Indiana, Buffie was second runnerup in the Miss Indiana 2008 contest before she pulled up stakes and moved to lower Manhattan - and set her sights on becoming Miss New York.
In doing so, Buffie found her cause.
"The reason I am such a vocal straight ally is because my older sister, Sarah, is gay, and I have a lot of gay friends and a gay roommate," she said.
They, she said, are "people that I care about so much and that I never want to see treated as second-class citizens."
High-profile suicides of some gay teens last year also fueled her cause.
"That proves to me that this is not something that we can brush under the rug anymore," Buffie said.
To give the beauty pageant more heft, Miss America organizers began requiring contestants in 1989 to come up with a social platform.
Most opt for causes that are worthy - and noncontroversial.
This year, for example, Miss New Jersey is running on "Read to Succeed" and Miss Connecticut is going with "One World: Global Awareness for Global Prosperity."
Not Buffie. When the show airs live from Las Vegas on Jan. 15, she's going for broke.
"It's groundbreaking in a way since it's the first in the Miss America organization," she said. "But also it's just so current."
Mindful that she also has to do well in the swimsuit part of the competition, Buffie said she gets in shape the way many New Yorkers do.
"I run the Brooklyn Bridge all the time," she said.
Uh ... did you forget your [sarcasm] tag?
Promoting and “accepting” this deviancy is anything but “compassionate” and “tolerant”.
It’s hateful to encourage people to go into or stay in these deadly lifestyles.
I wonder how she would have fared in the pageant world had she stayed in Indiana. Would she have trumpeted the “gay rights” agenda there?
Couldn't she possibly find a bigger group to support? Possibly one that does not support the ingestion of feces as far as the male homoesexuals she is so concerned about?
Just saying....
Maybe she’s a little mixed up and thinks Perez Hilton is going to be one of the judges?
5 years from now, she’ll be a confirmed rug-muncher.
Hope Rush is a judge.
“Born and raised in Indiana, Buffie was second runnerup in the Miss Indiana 2008 contest before she pulled up stakes and moved to lower Manhattan where she had a liberal lobotomy”
>>>They, she said, are “people that I care about so much and that I never want to see treated as second-class citizens.” <<<
I HATE this type of bull from the homosexualist agenda.
If you want to change the definition of marriage from what it has been throughout history, going back thousands of years, just say that. Then we can have an intelligent debate about the pros and cons and whether it makes sense. (It doesn’t, of course).
How are homosexuals treated as “2nd class citizens”? They have the same marriage rights as everyone else. They can marry eligible people of the opposite sex, just like you and me.
If anything they have more rights than heterosexuals as certain laws (such as “hate crimes” and anti-discrimination laws) make them a “protected class” giving them special rights.
That cannot be the best NY can do.
Buffie The Vampire, Gayer!
Bingo..........
There’s nothing brave about promoting sexual perversion in this day and age.
Or do drunks, pedophiles, drug addicts, and alcoholics also need to be supported in their fight to become more than “second class citizens”?
She reminds me of that woman in NYC who stole lots of money from her company a few years ago.
Very average. I guess there is a strong affirmative action program for average chicks with leftist agendas.
#24 Feminism was established as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.
There is nothing brave about bringing coals to Newcastle.
I hate to say this but most of the girls in the Miss America pageant are not that hot looking - Vanessa Williams was an exception. She will make the final cut for being “outspoken about rights” or some such nonsense.
I predict that within 5 years there will be a lesbo Miss America.
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