Angie Harmon defends Miss California
One of the ever-so-few Republicans in Hollywood, actress Angie Harmon knows all about saying things she believes in that aren’t popular. And Harmon is standing up for Miss California Carrie Prejean’s statement that she does not personally support gay marriage.
“If someone is standing up for how they feel and talking about their beliefs, why are we punishing her for that?” Harmon told Usmagazine.com Tuesday at the opening of the Malibu Lumber Yard in California. “I just don’t understand how we’ve gotten to a place in America where, if someone doesn’t agree with everyone, then they are punished for it.”
Prejean, 21, believes her answer cost her the crown and, if you believe Perez Hilton, it did. Director of the pageant and former beauty queen herself Shanna Moakler, denies it.
Said Harmon, “I heard something in the car on the way over here, and it was like, ‘She wasn’t punished,’ but she lost because of it. So she was punished.”
“I find it incredibly disappointing,” she went on. “I mean, that is what she thinks. That’s what she believes. I’m not going to punish anyone for that. I don’t know if she lost because of it, but if she did, I think that is very disappointing. In the Miss USA, she can’t stand up for what she thinks or what she believes in? I don’t understand that.”
Harmon disagreed with Hilton that Prejean should have given a compromise answer.
“People say she has to be PC … no,” Harmon said. “She’s standing up for what she believes in. She didn’t come out and say, ‘I hate gay people.’ That’s not what she said at all. I think it’s sad, I really do.”
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