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Antigay Miss Beverly Hills a Fraud?


Lauren Ashleyx390 (Doomsday) | Advocate.com

The city of Beverly Hills says an antigay Miss California USA contestant who claims to represent the city is a fraud, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Miss Beverly Hills Lauren Ashley has cited the Bible in declaring that same-sex marriage goes against God. “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.”

On Wednesday, Beverly Hills officials released a statement saying the city was shocked by Ashley’s position and by her supposed title as Miss Beverly Hills. The city “does not sponsor a beauty pageant and has no association with Miss California USA,” the statement said. “As such, there should be no individual claiming the title of Miss Beverly Hills.” In fact, according to Beverly Hills officials, Ashley lives in Pasadena, Calif., and, therefore “does not represent Beverly Hills in any capacity.”

"We are dismayed by any potential association with the city of Beverly Hills, which has a long history of tolerance and respect," Mayor Nancy Krasne said.

Read the full story here.

Watch Keith Olbermann and Dan Savage discuss Miss Beverly Hills below.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: dodi
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 1:54:06 PM
    Hometown: Riverside

    Comment:

    What she did was a business decision. She knew from previous experience that if someone creates a controversy paid interviews will be coming along. Carrie Prejean mastered this new profession... so did the balloon boy daddy. All they need is a platform to launch their financial ambition and in this case its always the media that gives them the time of day. If you don't pay attention to them ... they go away broke and poor from whence they started.

  • Name: KFLO
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 1:14:55 PM
    Hometown: Virginia

    Comment:

    She looks like a troll

  • Name: Jim
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 12:04:29 PM
    Hometown: Chicago

    Comment:

    The Bible is myth. It's a book made of stories from ancient, tribal, pre-Judiac stories (the story of Noah and the flood predates Judiasm by thousands of years, for example). Non-religious apologists for those who are religious only hurt the cause of rational thought. Religion IS the problem, made worse by idiots like this evil little girl. She wouldn't feel this way if her church and parents hadn't taught her to hate in the name of religion.

  • Name: Roger Burr
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 10:11:28 AM
    Hometown: Marble Hill

    Comment:

    She looks like something you could pick up on Santa Monica Boulevard for $50. Just when I thought Carrie Prejean had finally shut-up; along comes her clone.

  • Name: Thad
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 4:54:54 AM
    Hometown: SF

    Comment:

    The problem isn't religion, it's stupidity. People who engaged their religions in an intelligent way and don't just gobble it up thoughtlessly, are very reasonable.

  • Name: Michael
    Date posted: 2/25/2010 4:15:02 AM
    Hometown: Pearly Gates

    Comment:

    Leviticus the book of haters, most religions have removed that particular scripture from the bible as it is most likely a fraud. This is the same scripture that claims it is wrong to eat shellfish, that a wife is property and is unclean for 7 days each month and that pork should not be eaten and that the solution to crime is an eye for an eye,, a tooth for a tooth. Many of the verses contradict the teachings of Jesus, and are contrary to the 10 commandments and has been pointed out have been poorly translated to starty with. So when someone starts out and quotes Leviticus as their justification is proving themselves to be a fraud as well and that goes for the Jerry Falwells and Fred Phelps as well.

  • Name: Warner
    Date posted: 2/24/2010 10:00:22 PM
    Hometown: Salem, or

    Comment:

    Wow... another california bottle blond vanity pagent contestant who is homophobic, and looks like your typical low end prostitute. how long before she we masterbating infront of a camara multiple times like carrie 'I'm a good christian, now watch me finger my vagina and moan sensually' prejean?

  • Name: Newz4i
    Date posted: 2/24/2010 8:39:40 PM
    Hometown: Phoenix

    Comment:

    @Ben, your answer is too simple ... for me. Not trying to say you're wrong at all ... please, however it is baffling the Bible/Qur'an affects people the way it does. AND why am I not falling for it ... along with others?

  • Name: Ben
    Date posted: 2/24/2010 8:11:13 PM
    Hometown: NY

    Comment:

    @News: Because an even greater number of frauds pretend to believe in it.

  • Name: Newz4i
    Date posted: 2/24/2010 8:03:14 PM
    Hometown: Phoenix

    Comment:

    Why do so many frauds quote the Bible?



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