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Jill started blogging on Huffington Post yesterday. Check out her first entry about the The Miss USA Pageant.

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Science Cheerleader Darlene Cavalier reports What you donât know about Ms. Virginia:
We really do have a screwed up culture. Carrie Prejean, Miss California USA, could publicly argue for continued denial of civil rights to gays on air, in a beauty pageant, and pageant officials were unperturbed.
This made my head hurt. The following question was asked of Miss Teen South Carolina at the recent Miss Teen USA pageant.
Miss USA contestants have been asked for the upcoming beauty contest if evolution should be taught in US schools. In a seemingly unrelated question, they are also to be asked if they would ever pose nude for photographers.