Community | February 24, 2010 | 118 comments

Politics of homophobia: Beauty Queen says 'death for gays'

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A new star has risen in the politics of homophobia. Miss Beverly Hills, Lauren Ashley, is taking a stand on homosexuals: she wants them dead. According to Ashley, it is all part of God's plan:

“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.”

“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.”

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-10853-Portland-Humanist-Examiner~y2010m2d24-P...

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Update: 'Miss Beverly Hills' Christian homophobe Lauren Ashley a fraud!

http://current.com/items/92213405_update-miss-beverly-hills-christian-homophobe-...
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118 comments // Politics of homophobia: Beauty Queen says 'death for gays'

  • shizzam
  • Sebastian_Fort
  • quicksilver1814
  • randallr01
    • +4
      randallr01  
    • I'd also like to point out that this "beauty queen" is ugly. I can say that, right? It's fair game if she's claiming to be a beauty queen, right?

    • 2 years ago
  • Daubview
    • +2
      Daubview  
    • The bible preaches alot of hate, it's a sad state of affairs for people who try and show that christians are compassionate and caring for others, when she says something like that!
      I know one book my children won't be reading!

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
  • jubal
    • +3
      jubal  
    • These cat walk barbies are doing more to destroy people than any gay or lesbian. These women perpetuate the myth of "woman as beauty queen and whore". I think that their anorexic bodies should be displayed naked and hanging from freeway over passes and on billboards all around the country. Show their bony flesh bags so everyone can see what sick puppies they really are.

    • 2 years ago
  • SarahAna
  • barbie_chola89
    • +1
      barbie_chola89  
    • don't believe what the skag saids!! she obviously is in no possession of a BrAiN:) she's just spitting out words she knows would get her: attention__plain & simple, she's dumb and can't speak for herself!!!! like, she's just repeating what another "beauty" queen believes.....LOSERS/IGNORAMUS'

    • 2 years ago
  • randallr01
    • +3
      randallr01  
    • "The City of Beverly Hills strongly condemns Ms. Ashley's recent statements and has contacted pageant officials to determine ways to formally prevent any beauty contestants claiming the title of Miss Beverly Hills in the future."

    • 2 years ago
  • ryan8566
    • +3
      ryan8566  
    • randallr01:

      but once a statement like this is out there, even if detracted, it's out there for public consumption. who knows how many people have have been assaulted, or otherwise mistreated, because of this 'inspiration'?

    • 2 years ago
  • tommic
    • +4
      tommic  
    • After reading copious quanities of big daddy melvins threads Its quite apparent that he is mentally challanged. His threads go nowhere, lack logic and basic intellect. Proof of what unquestioned belief in religion brings to ones self. Intolorence, stupidity, and zero grasp of facts. The bible is not fact. Fact

    • 2 years ago
  • roryd00d
  • claryestes
  • tommic
  • jubal
    • 0
      jubal  
    • claryestes:

      The bible is a bi polar document, it worships two gods merged into a schizophrenic whole. The OT God is vengeance, punishment and bloody death, the OT God is love. You can never reconcile such polar opposites.

    • 2 years ago
  • dreamsenvoy
  • morirjedi
    • 0
      morirjedi  
    • She seems so smart just like all the other queens. When are we going to stop talking to these people and taking their opinions seriously. They are ill equipped to deal with such complex questions. Ask her about her cat or favorite color. Keep it simple stupid. Opps. Did I type that outloud?

    • 2 years ago
  • fun_size
    • +2
      fun_size  
    • Gotta love it when idiots use the bible to hate others. Whatever happened to turn the other cheek? Or judge not lest ye be judged? Christ im an atheist and im STILL a better christian than this retard.

    • 2 years ago
  • timetide
  • atomiclegion
  • onemalefla
  • atomiclegion
  • shanklinmike
  • Maeveeo
    • 0
      Maeveeo  
    • Attention ? Yes ! & You Don't wish death on anything or anybody thats wrong ,
      Feefer2110 is right no one will even remember her next week !

    • 2 years ago
  • feefer2010
    • +3
      feefer2010  
    • She's only saying these things pubically for attention, she saw what it did for carrie whats-her-face. She thinks spewing hatefull and ignorant nonsense will get her somewhere when in all actuall fact most of us wont even remember her name by next week.

    • 2 years ago
  • noxidereus
  • jane44095
    • +2
      jane44095  
    • it also says' in Leviticus "to love thy neighbor as thy self" so which is it?hate or love ?I don't think my supreme being wants me to hate or kill anyone.This girls should live in Uganda.

    • 2 years ago
  • Saladin
    • +3
      Saladin  
    • jane44095:

      Actually it doesn't say anything like that in Leviticus, "love thy neighbor" is new testament stuff.

      Leviticus is pretty much one big book of old testament shit. Among other things it implies that god hates people with acne.

    • 2 years ago
  • jane44095
    • +1
      jane44095  
    • Saladin:

      Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD. sorry it took me so long to respond,but i get sick of people not knowing what they are talking about to further their own agendas.Pretty much done with this waste of skin.

    • 2 years ago
  • vaxart
    • 0
      vaxart  
    • Take the middle path, don't judge anyone. It is all Karma, and the world is Maya (illusion). Gay, lesbian, straight - everything is just Maya. Leave people be.
      Besides, if your Bible God loves everyone then how can there be favorites???

    • 2 years ago
  • lordsbassman
  • tommic
    • 0
      tommic  
    • Beauty and brains, well she has one but not the other. Citing the bible to promote hatred is the biggest hypocracy of all. How about do unto others as you wish done to your self or however the verse goes. I guess she takes her cue from republican extremists who choose only information that supports their view. Stupidity promotes intolorence. Intolorence promotes hatred, hatred promotes violence.

    • 2 years ago
  • ryan8566
    • +2
      ryan8566  
    • tommic:

      tommic, yes, that was my point above. hatred is difficulct to change, but i agree violence could be the issue here. people being beaten, assaulted, etc. is the larger issue.
      statistically, the people who decide to 'go out and beat up a few gays' are not known for having a high IQ. they sometimes only need a statement like this to set them off.

    • 2 years ago
  • Carlos_De_Tirado
    • -5
      Carlos_De_Tirado  
    • While I disagree about her views on death to homos and furthermore disagree with her better than thou comments this lady is brining up her view and I must say that there is a double standard that the gay community follows when it comes to comments on same sex marriage and retarded religious views on the subject. Elton John the other day said that Jesus was Gay, and no one said a single thing about it. This lady states her religious views on homosexuality and she gets dethroned but someone who agrees with the gay communities view is not. That is hypocrisy at its finest and I for one do not agree with it. We now live in a society were being heterosexual with strong convictions is being chastised for and that is wrong.

    • 2 years ago
  • Andrew_Douglas
  • noxidereus
    • 0
      noxidereus  
    • Carlos_De_Tirado:

      Nobody is attacking heterosexuality, or people with strong convictions in general, but rather what is being attacked here is a specific strong conviction in the form of a fantasy-based, superficial hatred towards an entire group of people. Some people rightfully point out the fact that there really is a correlation between religion and homophobia, such that SOME homophobes use their religious texts to justify said hatred. There is no double-standard. Sorry.

    • 2 years ago
  • ryan8566
  • Madhatter244
    • +1
      Madhatter244  
    • The Westboro Baptist Church wants you Lauren Ashley...hurry answer your true calling.

      I wonder if she might be an offspring of Fred Phelps?

    • 2 years ago
  • lordsbassman
  • CarolineS
    • 0
      CarolineS  
    • it says in the bible about gays, yet never says anything about being a dumb slutty, illiterate, uninteligent whore????
      mind you, it's always best not to listen to people who quote/believe the bible!

    • 2 years ago
  • blaino
  • ryan8566
  • JonRaymond
  • phukoph
    • 0
      phukoph  
    • Oh, I would also like to add, that someone trying to be a miss whatever, by their standards, she's a fat fucking cow! Just an observation. Not that I endorse a binge and purge lifestyle, or the grossly overstated skinniness that's currently perpetuated in fashion.

    • 2 years ago
  • SarahAna
    • 0
      SarahAna  
    • phukoph:

      I was going to mention that she looks a too heavy to be a beauty queen. she probably wouldn't get far. And her dress is a little too short, tight, and whore red to be a Christian outfit! She's just looking for attention.

    • 2 years ago
  • phukoph
    • 0
      phukoph  
    • I'll say it again, it's all in interpretation. She said, "If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman . . . ", I take that as saying, if a man lies with just anyone, if they go around fucking mankind, a.k.a. a slut. Interpretation. Furthermore, when's she going to realize this was all written in ancient times, by men claiming it came from God, and it was all politically motivated to get as many people as possible to join with the new religion, Christianity. Also, written during Roman times, when homosexuality was rampant, and most Romans practiced religions of a Pagan origin. I'd also like to point out that through out history, if one did not conform to the Christian religion, then one was murdered. I find Christianity a crock. I believe in a creator, that loves all of us, and wants the best for all of us, but I don't buy any one religion's point of view.

    • 2 years ago
  • PirateSauce
    • +6
      PirateSauce  
    • (Speaking as an American)

      I think we all should step back from a story like this and understand how it divides us all as people.

      Divide and conquer.

      Stories like this are put out by the press because they are HUGE distractions and cause people to hate each other.

      We're being distracted from what's going on in this country and we need to wake up. There are more important things to think about right now.. The patriot act was just reinstated among a million other things happening right now.

      Don't fall for the BS

    • 2 years ago
  • yepyep
    • +4
      yepyep  
    • I don't understand why everyone is all up in arms about this, it's obvious that god hates gays but did you know that Shiva hates Buddha and wants to destroy him? Krishna hates Allah but that's not a big deal since Yahweh says that Allah hates most of the people on the planet. The real news is that Santa Claus is going to kick the Easter Bunny's ass the next time he sees him. OOOhhh and don't even get me started on the tooth fairy and how she is planning to take all that gold from that little Irish fucker that thinks he's all cool at the end of the rainbow not sharing with anybody.

    • 2 years ago
  • mr_tibbles
  • Andrew_Douglas
  • yepyep
    • 0
      yepyep  
    • Andrew_Douglas:

      I assume that you are talking about the "Shiva" as the destroyer joke.....super glad that you got that one. It kinda has 2 parts since those two have really clashed in the recent past "Sri Lankan Civil War". Couldn't really find any examples of Hare Krishna's fighting Muslims but wouldn't be surprised if it happened. Since Muslims are only 22% of the worlds population, on a good day, means by militant views that's 78% infidels, so that means that they would really wouldn't like most people....kinda lame but a little funny...... There are lots of great examples of this kind of stuff, I forgot to put in the Irish protestant VS Irish catholic one that from an outsider looks like a God punching himself in the face.

    • 2 years ago
  • MAssappeal
    • 0
      MAssappeal  
    • I feel like it's very easy for some of us who are privileged enough to live in areas, however far reaching they may be, of some reason or whatever, to kind of write these people off because the only real exposure we have to them is through short news clips of their most blunt, tactless comments. But I'm not sure that we appreciate the fact that there exists, while certainly not a majority, a vast and still growing number of people who not only hold views similar to or more extreme than those of the somehow-celebrity above, but openly seek opportunities to act on their beliefs, through political activism and, increasingly, physical force. We need to recognize and respect just what an absolute threat this is to everyone. Didn't Aus-Rotten say when talking about Nazis "don't give them their freedom because they're not going to give you yours"? If we want to be an equivocal majority, we need to act like one and stay visible to show that WE are America. THIS is what we stand for.

    • 2 years ago
  • ryan8566
  • neodobby
    • -2
      neodobby  
    • There was really no need to put words in her mouth or misrepresent the tone of her stance; an unbiased, straightforward article about this subject would have still garnered plenty of attention here.

    • 2 years ago
  • fhavenger09
  • riotdeathgirl
    • 0
      riotdeathgirl  
    • i love how someone takes something as controversial as religion and use it against something just as controversial as homosexuality. i'm all for people needing to believe in something but to say that is just fucked up. i love gay people and well she should fucking be shot... or something...

    • 2 years ago
  • riotdeathgirl
    • -1
      riotdeathgirl  
    • i love how someone takes something as controversial as religion and use it against something just as controversial as homosexuality. i'm all for people needing to believe in something but to say that is just fucked up. i love gay people and well she should fucking be shot... or something...

    • 2 years ago
  • pandaman2105
    • +2
      pandaman2105  
    • stupid, ugly superficial blonde whore with no intelligence. more sickening that she's another American white one from a pageant.

      someone toss her in the tank at SeaWorld, let's watch her get flung around to death in front of an audience of gay people and reward the whale by setting it free!

    • 2 years ago
  • ZeldaMasterZapp
    • +1
      ZeldaMasterZapp  
    • pandaman2105:

      I'm tired of people like you, granted I'm a black, atheist, and all for gay rights. Why did the subject if her being a stupid white pageant whore have to come into this? Granted she is fucking stupid. But this is the mentality that is given when you're raised to take the mental poison that is religion, bible thumping society. And you say this as if their isn't any homophobes of any other race, or that white bimbos are justified because they are stereotypically naturally stupid. I've seen plenty dumb ass pro gay supporters, granted you don't have to be the most smart person to say "Eh, I'm for gays". As a black person I'll tell you!, You want to see dumb, moronic, homophobes? You haven't seeing anything until you walked into a black church, talked to some black gangsta alpha male type, who are taught to hate gays in rap music, and out of the mouth of a few religious assholes who should know what oppression feels like.

    • 2 years ago
  • ryan8566
  • Phoenix234
    • 0
      Phoenix234  
    • ZeldaMasterZapp:

      im a white athiest and im all for gay rights.
      and ill tell you shes a blonde , WHO IS WHITE.

      -its not racist to point out that the colour of her skin is white.
      -have you watched the pageants? not a brain cell between the contestants. so we can assume shes stupid.
      -and since any woman whos stupid enough to attack a group of people unprovoked we can assume shes stupid enough to assume it wont be hard toget her in bed. so shes a whore.
      -pageants are superficial as they get. so we can use that to.
      -ugly is an opinion person to person. but ill admit i dont find her attractive. so...

      so from this evidence we can say that she is a blonde superficial ugly white bimbo whore.

      making pandaman2105 's statement a fact rather then an opinion right? :)

    • 2 years ago
  • noxidereus
    • -1
      noxidereus  
    • ZeldaMasterZapp:

      ... Because she IS a stupid, white, pageant whore. I'm a white pro-gay-rights atheist. I don't have a problem with people making fun of this bitch. She's prejudging a whole group of people based on her ignorance, so it's relevant to point out why she is ignorant, and there's no need to be politically correct in doing so. She does not deserve respect... and nobody said that ONLY stupid, white, pageant whores hate gays.

    • 2 years ago
  • pandaman2105
    • 0
      pandaman2105  
    • ZeldaMasterZapp:

      ok...
      what am i like? i'm just stating the truth and i simply have a disdain for bigoted intolerance from people too ignorant to realize what decade they're living in or who use religion/God/the bible as their excuse for statements of hate.

      and the blonde, white part? i don't think i need to provide a list of all of the idiotic, ridiculously fake blondes in the media today who are famous for nothing or who really suck at what they do and are continually given attention because of their beauty. it's just annoying to hear from another one who looks "pretty" and comes from a contest of fake looks. i know it's not just blondes, but they are there...frequently.
      i have no attraction to those types and you can easily tell one apart from a natural blonde who might actually be smart and respectful.

      i never said it's just white people! i totally know that, i'm not ignorant to the homophobia of other races.
      any other race, i would have added that she's a disgrace to the entire population because in this country, they would be a minority. whites are prevalent and when there is a blonde woman who make this kind of statement, you just hate them because WE GET ENOUGH OF THAT SHIT FROM POLITICIANS AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS.

      carrie prejean!!! nobody needs to hear from another one of those stupid women with no brains and big boobs. and fake hair. and botox. and a bony ass. and too much toxic make-up. and no intelligent source for their opinions.

      never intended to offend anyone other than the rest of her thoughtless barbie clan :)

    • 2 years ago
  • Logos51891
  • nkeg87
  • Nephwrack
  • outtheinside
    • +2
      outtheinside  
    • the updated story says that there is no such thing as Miss Beverly Hills as they have no beauty pageant. for all of you saying she wasn't beauty queen worthy, you are correct. Christian, liar, homophobe.. i think someone needs to do some soul-searching..

    • 2 years ago
  • GodsnLiberals
  • Nephwrack
  • fun_size
  • Budoshi
    • +1
      Budoshi  
    • Faith and stupidity does not match... She's just another example on how ignorance mixed with blind religion often gives bizarre results..

    • 2 years ago
  • Still_Falling
    • +5
      Still_Falling  
    • I thought they said she was a beauty queen?
      I don't see it, but to each their own.

      To the issue at hand, she is a person who is trying to make a name for herself. So by saying the outrageous she will get on television and gain exposure - this is her little scheme.

      Skip ahead a few months and there will be a porn tape or provocative photos taken when she was a minor and did not know the wind was blowing her top open and exposing her breast .... come on.

      She is irrelevant and please lets stop talking about her so she remains irrelevant.

    • 2 years ago
  • wellhunggimp
  • amandamanda
  • GodsnLiberals
  • Still_Falling
  • Mariased
  • lordsbassman
  • noxidereus
  • Mariased
  • metalcookiesxy70
  • GodsnLiberals
  • BIGDADDYMELVIN
  • lifestudentno83
  • nkeg87
  • Nephwrack
  • BIGDADDYMELVIN
  • lifestudentno83
    • +4
      lifestudentno83  
    • BIGDADDYMELVIN:

      First of all, what commandments have you seen me break?
      Second, the ten commandments are RULES, not condemnations.
      Third, if it's so perfect then why do So-Called Christians break them so many times?

      If we are such "Degenerates", why are you even here?

      You're so ready to condemn everyone who doesn't think like you.

      You're so busy trying to pull the twigs out of other people's eyes, you can't see the log jammed inside of yours!

      I went to Christian church until I was 12, so I know about religion. I've read the Bible enough to know who's a good Christian and who's not. I also know well enough to let the bad one's fall on their faces all on their own. I don't claim to be a Christian, because I don't believe in the existence of God beyond a shadow of a doubt.

      But at least me claiming not to know is better than someone who claims to know and uses it to put himself on a pedestal. Go act holier than thou on another website. Here's hoping you don't reap the hate you're sowing.

    • 2 years ago
  • noxidereus
    • 0
      noxidereus  
    • BIGDADDYMELVIN:

      Which 10? Have you actually read Exodus?

      (Exodus 34: 13-28):

      1. Thou shall worship no other god.
      2. Thou shall make thee no molten gods.
      3. The feast of unleavened bread shall be kept.
      4. Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh, thou shalt rest.
      5. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
      6. Thrice in a year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God.
      7. Thy shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven.
      8. Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of passover be left unto the morning.
      9. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt being unto the house of the Lord thy God.
      10. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

      Sounds like something an omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent creator of the universe would come up with eh? LOL. It's up to you if you want to believe in thousands-of-years old superstitions, but when you tell people they are going to hell, it gives me license to pick on you. In my opinion, this is pretty stupid shit.

      Of all the horrible things man is capable of, such as rape and war, it doesn't matter to God as long as you don't worship any other God and don't forget not to seethe a kid in his mother's milk. And if your bread is leavened when you offer a blood sacrifice to him, it means you are not worthy of heaven.

      Ridiculous. You wanna know what really condemns mankind? Ignorance.

    • 2 years ago
  • randallr01
  • maurajriordan
    • +3
      maurajriordan  
    • Who is that girl even? Honestly, I don't care that some girl who is superficial enough to be a devoted contestant in a beauty competition. I wonder if she knows God didn't write the bible even..

    • 2 years ago
  • Nephwrack
    • +1
      Nephwrack  
    • maurajriordan:

      OHAI!

      my sister is in the running for an upcoming miss California pageant. she's raised a lot of money for her pet charity, invisible children, is a member of her high school's gay straight alliance, and in her last community title, she spent over 600 hours in community service, doing things ranging from feeding the homeless, working with disabled kids, to raising money for cancer patients. she's also the nicest person i know. you can take your foot out of your mouth now. the miss america pageant alone raises some 40,000,000 dollars a year in college scholarships for it's contestants alone.

      on the other hand, i can understand being upset about the statement that the "miss" from beverly hills made, because it's really bigoted and ignorant. however, making a blanket statement about the girls who run in pageants is also ignorant. maybe do some research next time before shooting off at the mouth.

      KTHANKSBAI!

    • 2 years ago
  • randallr01
  • Nephwrack
    • 0
      Nephwrack  
    • randallr01:

      did you or did you "not" read my comment? because it sounds like you did not. i do not defend *anything* without question, but if you want to leave yourself open to verbal evisceration, please, question why i think the comment above was just as ignorant as the statement made by the fake "miss" beverly hills. your retort is already flawed, as you seem to have ignored what i had to say, so good luck.

    • 2 years ago
  • randallr01
  • mcjk
    • +8
      mcjk  
    • Leviticus also says not to eat shellfish.

      Nothing is more ironic than "followers of Jesus" hating on people.

    • 2 years ago
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