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Organizers of the Miss USA 2011 pageant have been criticized for putting controversial and intimidating questions to the contestants. In on-camera interviews set to be posted on the official Miss USA website, 2011 pageant hopefuls are being asked if they believe evolution should be taught in schools, and if they would ever pose for nude photographs, reports Fox News. Though Paula Shugart, President of the Miss Universe Organization (MUO) that also operates Miss USA, says these \u201ctopics are very relevant and in the news,\u201d others wonder if MUO is just trying to repeat a similar Carrie Prejean-style controversy in the days preceding its June 19 live telecast. Prejean was a 2009 Miss USA pageant representing California, who came under controversy after she answered to a question about gay marriage during a live telecast. \u201cI think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that\u2019s how I was raised,\u201d she had said in the live telecast. Later, after her nude photos were published, she lost her Miss California title. \u201cThe 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,\u201d said Keith Lewis, who was embroiled in the Prejean saga and is now the executive state pageant director for California, New York and New Hampshire. \u201cThe 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,\u201d she said. Publicist Angie Meyer, who has worked with the Miss USA organization, added, \u201cThe pageant officials are intimidating contestants into answering questions a certain way that are deemed \u2018politically correct\u2019 while discriminating against their own belief and opinions.\u201d \u201cThe Miss USA organization is choosing topics that are not only controversial, but intimidating,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n
For More Updates, follow us on Paula Shugart, President of the Miss Universe Organization (MUO). Organizers of the Miss USA 2011 pageant have been criticized for putting controversial and intimidating questions to the contestants. In on-camera interviews set to be posted on the official Miss USA website, 2011 pageant hopefuls are being asked if they believe evolution should be taught in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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