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The chasm between Miss USA pageant directors and Miss California Carrie Prejean appears to have widened this week when the contest runner-up was missing from a PSA filming.
The pageant’s state directors Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler, along with beauty queens past and present, were in Santa Monica Thursday to film a PSA entitled "I Believe … The Beauty of California," according to a Fox News story.
Prejean was not at the studio in Santa Monica to record the message (expected to hit the web next week) which is aimed at promoting the diversity of California and includes such lines as "I believe when I express my opinion I have a responsibility to do it in a way that respects others who may not agree … I believe in love … I believe when two people with opposite views communicate with love and respect both points of view can be heard … I believe no one should be silenced if they are speaking from their heart with respect … I believe in the beauty of California."
Lewis told Tarts at the shoot:
"This (PSA) has been in the works forever, but it got pushed to the front burner as we started to realize there was a vacuum sucking the life out of us. We were starting to feel that people might not be seeing our vision clearly right now.
"We gathered these amazing women; these are the empowered spokespeople of our organization that are constantly in the front lines as the shining example of what this organization does. For us in state of California, its all about diversity, beauty, landscape and tourism. These are the women that are committed to that platform."
While Lewis gushed with more quotes about "really missing" Prejean, her rep said she had a "prior personal commitment otherwise she would have been glad to participate."
Perhaps still struggling with having a beauty queen runner-up that supports traditional marriage and opposes the legalization of gay marriage, Miss USA officials grapple for answers outloud:
"We are a story in evolution and the conclusion just isn’t here yet. It’s so difficult to rush to judgment with anything without really having all the information so I have to take all the information in and process it. It then goes through the Miss Universe Organization and Donald Trump is intimately involved. We are communicating through the proper channels with one another as we always do," Lewis explained. "We are just trying to move forward in what is the best way for the organization, the women, the titleholder and the state. Carrie is still Miss California USA, but right now she is not acting in the capacity of Miss California USA. She is acting as Carrie Prejean and working on things that are important to Carrie Prejean."
Another words, Carrie being Carrie does not fit the Miss USA agenda.
Source: Fox News
Related: USA Beauty Pageant Officials, Media Intolerant of Traditional Marriage View
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