Watch: Miss America contestant drags Kim Davis during pageant question
By Will Stroude
After Carrie Prejean’s notorious anti-gay marriage controversy back in 2009, one Miss America contestant’s fantastic answer to a question about anti-gay marriage clerk Kim Davis and ‘religious freedom’ during Sunday’s night’s grande final (September 13) has restored the LGBT community’s faith in pageant beauties.
In scenes that are making us want to fire up the DVD player for yet another viewing of Miss Congeniality, Miss Mississippi was asked about the case of Kim Davis, who was locked up after violating a federal court order compelling her not to discriminate when issuing marriage licenses, and her answer got a big ole’ ‘Yaaaaasss’ from both the audience and us.
During the final’s Q&A round, Hannah Roberts from Mount Olive was asked by US pop starlet Zendaya whether the Kentucky clerk’s religious freedom had been violated, and the 22-year-old barely paused for breath before delivering her flawless response.
“It absolutely does not violate her religious freedom,” she pretty much spat back.
“That is her job that she was voted into doing. That law is a federal law throughout the rest of her country, so she did violate the law there.”
Quite rightly, the biochemistry graduate went on to win first runner-up and a $25,000 scholarship. Check out her Q&A from 6.00 below (though frankly the entire eight and half, Vanessa Williams-featuring minutes are worth watching regardless).
While we gotta we’ve Hannah credit for this amazing moment, obviously this is still comes in as our second favourite pageant response. The first being, well, you probably guessed it…
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