Cathy Grossman in USAToday reports on the fears of beauty pageant contestants:
The beauty queen gig is hard work if you can get it. Not only must you rock a bikini, now you have to think on your stilettos with the social values savvy of a pol running for office. Answering ‘world peace’ to every question, like the running gag in Miss Congeniality, won’t cut it any more.
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pageant pro Keith Lewis, who directs the extravaganzas in California, New York and New Hampshire, told Fox:
The girls are scared to death. They witnessed with Carrie Prejean how a firestorm can create a road kill, and nobody wants to be part of a situation like that again … The girls are concerned that there is a right or wrong answer. Polarizing questions often create a situation where you suffer … if you agree, and if you do not. The girls need to answer in a way that brings them to a common ground.”
…if you can strut in a bikini and stilettos, and simper in a fishtail gown, why would you quake at a mere question? Unless… unless they ask the God question. Could an out front atheist conquer the crown?