Miss California - the epitome of stupidity

Stumbling around the internet one day, I came across the video for Miss California's answer to judge Perez Hilton's question in the final round of the Miss USA contest. She began with the usual fake-sounding drivel until she dropped the bombshell - "I think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that's how I was raised."

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Now I appreciate that she didn't give the "safe" answer, but she could have at least not given a stupid one. Oh no, it's not that she opposes same sex marriage. It's that she opposes it because "that's how she was raised." Let's think about the stupidity of this statement. Our grandparents and great-grandparents were born in a world before Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks. If they're from certain parts of the country, some of these people were raised to believe that people with dark skin shouldn't be allowed to use the same restroom as people with light skin. They shouldn't eat in the same part of the restaurant, they shouldn't sit in the front of the bus, they shouldn't even go to the same schools. Keep going back, and you'll find people who were raised to believe that women were second-class citizens, that slavery was okay, that England's Queen should rule over the colonies in the New World, that being born a peasant means you stay a peasant, that goats needed to be sacrificed to appease their deity, that pederasty is perfectly acceptable.

That's the way they were raised, Ms. Prejean, so that makes it okay, right?